6:11 But you, as a person dedicated to God, 1 keep away from all that. 2 Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.
6:20 O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid 3 the profane chatter and absurdities 4 of so-called “knowledge.” 5
1 tn Grk “O man of God.”
2 tn Grk “flee these things.”
3 tn Grk “avoiding.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
4 tn Or “contradictions.”
5 tn Grk “the falsely named knowledge.”