Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Flee. There are many lusts from which our safety is in flight (Genesis 39:12). Avoid occasions of sin. The abstemious character of Timothy (1 Timothy 5:23) shows that not animal indulgences, but the impetuosity, self-confidence, hastiness, and vain-glory of young men (1 John 2:14-16), are what he is warned against: the Spirit probably intended the warning to include both in its application to the Church in general.
Also - Greek, 'but:' in contrast to "every good work" (2 Timothy 2:21).
Youthful. Timothy was a youth (1 Timothy 4:12).
Righteousness - the opposite of "iniquity;" i:e., unrighteousness (2 Timothy 2:19; cf. 1 Timothy 6:11).
Peace, with - rather no comma: "peace with them that call on the Lord," etc. (Hebrews 12:14).
Out of a pure heart (Ephesians 6:5; Colossians 3:22; 1 Timothy 1:5). Love all men: but peace (spiritual concord, not mere absence of strife) can only be with those who call on the Lord (Romans 10:12) sincerely (as contrasted with the false teachers, who had the mere form of godliness, 2 Timothy 3:5; 2 Timothy 3:8; Titus 1:15-16; Romans 12:18).