but at the proper time made known as His message through the message that I preach with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Saviour;

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of pure life, self-controlled,

For there are many insubordinate people, mere talkers with nothing to say, but deceivers of their own minds, especially those of the circumcision party,

To the pure everything is pure, but to the impure and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are impure.

They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown Him; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for anything good.

the older women, too, to be reverent in their deportment, and not to be slanderers or slaves to heavy drinking, but to be teachers of what is right,

to stop resisting them and stealing from them, but to show such perfect fidelity as to adorn, in everything they do, the teaching of God our Saviour.

But when the goodness and lovingkindness of God our Saviour were brought to light,

He saved us, not for upright deeds that we had done, but in accordance with His mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

But hold yourself aloof from foolish controversies, pedigrees, strife, and wrangles about the law, for these are fruitless and futile.