I beg you, as I did when I was on my way into Macedonia, to remain at Ephesus; that you may instruct certain people there not to teach new and strange doctrines,

How true the saying is, and worthy of the fullest acceptance, that 'Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners'! And there is no greater sinner than I!

There is but one God, and one mediator between God and men--the man, Christ Jesus,

But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the Faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons,

Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully;

Those are the points on which you should dwell, that there may be no call for your censure.

There are some who have already left us, to follow Satan.

There are some men whose sins are conspicuous and lead on to judgment, while there are others whose sins dog their steps.

for there are those who, while asserting their proficiency in it, have yet, as regards the Faith, gone altogether astray. God bless you all.