Do your best to please God. Be a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed. Teach the message of truth correctly.

你当竭力在神面前得蒙喜悦，作无愧的工人，按着正意分解真理的道。

你当竭力在上帝面前作一个经得起考验、无愧的工人，按着正意讲解真理的话。

你当竭力在神面前作一个经得起考验、无愧的工人，按着正意讲解真理的话。

你应当竭力在上帝面前做经得起考验、问心无愧的工人，正确地阐释真理之道。

你应当竭力在神面前作一个蒙称许、无愧的工人，正确地讲解真理的道。

你要努力地向神显明自己是经过考验的，是无愧的工人，能正确分解真理的话语。

你當竭力在神面前得蒙喜悅，作無愧的工人，按着正意分解真理的道。

你當竭力在上帝面前作一個經得起考驗、無愧的工人，按着正意講解真理的話。

你當竭力在神面前作一個經得起考驗、無愧的工人，按着正意講解真理的話。

你應當竭力在上帝面前做經得起考驗、問心無愧的工人，正確地闡釋真理之道。

你應當竭力在神面前作一個蒙稱許、無愧的工人，正確地講解真理的道。

你要竭力在上帝面前明示自己是被試驗為可嘉的，是無愧的工人，把真理之道解析得得體。

你要努力地向神顯明自己是經過考驗的，是無愧的工人，能正確分解真理的話語。

宜殷勤獻己於上帝、蒙其嘉納、為無愧之傭、善佈真道、

務能悅於上帝、為操作、無愧怍、善頒真理、

爾當取悅於天主、為無愧之工、善頒真道、

汝當努力善操聖道莫使失真、庶幾不愧為天主所悅之良工。

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth.

Be diligent to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a worker who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

In fact, it is just the opposite. God has approved us to preach. He has trusted us with the good news. We aren’t trying to please people. We want to please God. He tests our hearts.

Point out these things to the brothers and sisters. Then you will serve Christ Jesus well. You will show that you’ve grown in the truths of the faith. You will show that you’ve been trained by the good teaching you’ve obeyed.

So we try our best to please him. We want to please him whether we are at home in our bodies or away from them.

My brothers and sisters, try very hard to show that God has appointed you to be saved. Try hard to show that he has chosen you. If you do everything I have just said, you will never trip and fall.

Those who praise themselves are not accepted. Those the Lord praises are accepted.

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young. Set an example for the believers in what you say and in how you live. Also set an example in how you love and in what you believe. Show the believers how to be pure.Until I come, spend your time reading Scripture out loud to one another. Spend your time preaching and teaching.Don’t fail to use the gift the Holy Spirit gave you. He gave it to you through a prophecy from God. It was given when the elders placed their hands on you.Keep on doing these things. Give them your complete attention. Then everyone will see how you are coming along.Be careful of how you live and what you believe. Never give up. Then you will save yourself and those who hear you.

Instead, we have given up doing secret and shameful things. We don’t twist God’s word. In fact, we do just the opposite. We present the truth plainly. In the sight of God, we make our appeal to everyone’s sense of what is right and wrong.

I hope that you will always be able to remember these things after I’m gone. I will try very hard to see that you do.

Am I now trying to get people to think well of me? Or do I want God to think well of me? Am I trying to please people? If I were, I would not be serving Christ.

God chose to give us new birth through the message of truth. He wanted us to be the first harvest of his new creation.

We have a lot to say about this. But it is hard to make it clear to you. That’s because you are no longer trying to understand.By this time you should be teachers. But in fact, you need someone to teach you all over again. You need even the simple truths of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food.Anyone who lives on milk is still a baby. That person does not want to learn about living a godly life.Solid food is for those who are grown up. They have trained themselves to tell the difference between good and evil. That shows they have grown up.

He has given us the power to serve under a new covenant. The covenant is not based on the written Law of Moses. It comes from the Holy Spirit. The written Law kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Dear friends, I know you are looking forward to this. So try your best to be found pure and without blame. Be at peace with God.

Brothers and sisters, we are asking you to warn certain people. These people don’t want to work. Instead, they make trouble. We are also asking you to encourage those who have lost hope. Help those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.

The words we speak to those who have grown in the faith are wise. Our words are different from the wisdom of this world. Our words are different from those of the rulers of this world. These rulers are becoming less and less powerful.

When Jesus and the disciples had finished eating, Jesus spoke to Simon Peter. He asked,“ Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?”“ Yes, Lord,” he answered.“ You know that I love you.” Jesus said,“ Feed my lambs.”Again Jesus asked,“ Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He answered,“ Yes, Lord. You know that I love you.” Jesus said,“ Take care of my sheep.”Jesus spoke to him a third time. He asked,“ Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt bad because Jesus asked him the third time,“ Do you love me?” He answered,“ Lord, you know all things. You know that I love you.” Jesus said,“ Feed my sheep.

Greet Apelles. He remained faithful to Christ even when he was tested. Greet those who live in the house of Aristobulus.

I haven’t let anyone keep me from telling you everything God wants you to do.

So let us make every effort to enjoy that rest. Then no one will die by disobeying as they did.

You also became believers in Christ. That happened when you heard the message of truth. It was the good news about how you could be saved. When you believed, he stamped you with an official mark. That official mark is the Holy Spirit that he promised.

“ Fellow Israelites, listen to this! Jesus of Nazareth was a man who had God’s approval. God did miracles, wonders and signs among you through Jesus. You yourselves know this.

He said to them,“ Every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house. He brings new treasures out of his storeroom as well as old ones.”

Those who serve Christ in this way are pleasing to God. They are pleasing to people too.

The Lord answered,“ Suppose a master puts one of his servants in charge of his other servants. The servant’s job is to give them the food they are to receive at the right time. The master wants a faithful and wise manager for this.

Brothers and sisters, I couldn’t speak to you as people who live by the Holy Spirit. I had to speak to you as people who were still following the ways of the world. You aren’t growing as Christ wants you to. You are still like babies.The words I spoke to you were like milk, not like solid food. You weren’t ready for solid food yet. And you still aren’t ready for it.

We don’t put anything in anyone’s way. So no one can find fault with our work for God.Instead, we make it clear that we serve God in every way. We serve him by standing firm in troubles, hard times and suffering.

Using many stories like these, Jesus spoke the word to them. He told them as much as they could understand.