Wednesday Bible Study from St. John's Lancaster

I've been asked to post my notes for Christian Education classes this year, and so I start with many good intentions.  The Wednesday studies, at least initially, will consist of a directed discussion on the assigned Epistle Lesson for the coming Sunday.  Here are my preliminary notes for  Proper 21 C Revised Common Lectionary: I Timothy 6:6-19.

St. Paul in Prison, perhaps writing to Bishop Timothy?

Introduction:
I Timothy is a Pastoral Epistle from what today we might call an archbishop (Paul), to a young Bishop (Timothy.)  All of the book up to today's lesson constitutes a necessary prequel to today's admonition.  In this prequel, St. Paul illustrates the basic nature of orthodox, catholic, apostolic belief and practice.
1. Christ centered doctrine and a call to and definition of faith constitute the bulk of chapter 1.
2. Prayer and moral example dominate chapter 2.
3. Chapter three is about qualifications for ecclesial office.
4. Chapters four and five, and the opening verses of chapter 6, provide admonitions about how to deal with controversies involving devotional practices, extra biblical doctrines, monastic practice, clergy compensation, and social order, and Timothy is admonished not to back down from those who would reject his authority.
 5. Chapter six opens by characterizing the foregoing chapters as a description of Christian faith and practice, and goes on to reject the authority of those who deny or resist such teaching and practice. Then follows a very specific discussion of what constitutes real Christian motives and piety.  Health and wealth gospels are rejected out of hand, and believers are called to model and seek more spiritual virtues to adorn their character: justice, piety, fidelity, love, fortitude, and gentleness. Then comes a final Christocentric statement of faith and exhortations to seek spiritual rather than material wealth, and to avoid vain chatter and false intellectual pretense.

Questions:
1. What are the virtues listed in 6:11-12 called in different translations of the Bible?
2. Are you surprised that the book begins and ends with exhortations to right belief about Jesus?  What constitutes this right belief? (cf 1:15-17 and 6:13-16)
3. What are the "orders to be obeyed" referred to in Chapter 6 verse 14?
4. What elements of the Creeds do you find in the doctrinal portions of chapters one and six?