22 Stop being the person you used to be in your old life. That person was bad because he wanted to do wrong things.
23 Have a new mind and heart.
24 Be a new person. That new person has been made like God. He does what is right and holy because he knows the truth.
12 Do not let anyone despise you because you are a young man. Show those who believe how they should live. Show them by the way you talk. Show them by the way you live. Show them by the way you love. Show them how to believe by the way you believe. Show them how to live a clean life by the way you live a clean life.
11 But you belong to God, Timothy. Have nothing to do with all this. But do what is right. Do what God wants you to do. Believe in Christ. Be loving. Be patient. Be kind.
13 Be awake! Stand strong in what you believe. Show that you are men. Be strong.
14 Do everything with love.
6 God sent a man named John.
7 He came to talk about the Light, so that all people might believe in the Light by what he said.
12 But there were people who did believe in his name. They did receive him. He gave all those who received him and believed him the right to become children of God.
13 They were born into Gods family by God. That is, they were not born into his family in the way a person is born into this world. It was not by any persons will.
31 We know that God does not listen to bad people. But God listens to the person who shows him respect and who obeys him.