11 Command and teach these things.
12 You are young, but do not let anyone treat you as if you were not important. Be an example to show the believers how they should live. Show them with your words, with the way you live, with your love, with your faith, and with your pure life.
13 Continue to read the Scriptures to the people, strengthen them, and teach them. Do these things until I come.
14 Remember to use the gift that you have. That gift was given to you through a prophecy when the group of elders laid their hands on you.
15 Continue to do those things. Give your life to doing them. Then everyone can see that your work is progressing.
16 Be careful in your life and in your teaching. Continue to live and teach rightly. Then you will save yourself and those people who listen to you.