who subvert whole families, teaching what they ought not, for shameful gain:

This testimony is true: for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be found in the faith;

They profess to know God, but in works deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every thing that is good void of understanding.

that they may instruct the young women to be temperate, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be prudent,

not answering frowardly, not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

This is a word which ought to believed and observed, and concerning these things I would have thee stedfastly affirm, that they who have believed in God be careful to excel in good works: for these things are good and profitable to men.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain:

And let our brethren-also learn to excel in good works for necessary exigencies, that they may not be unfruitful.