Paul, the servant of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the perfect knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

in the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie, promised before the eternal times,

and manifested in his own seasons his word by preaching, with which I am intrusted, according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

holding that which is according to the teaching of the faithful word, in order that he may be able both to exhort with healthy teaching, and to convict the opposers.

whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain.

This testimony is true: on account of which cause convict them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith,

But speak you those things which become healthy teaching.

likewise that the elderly women be reverent in demeanor, not tattlers, not given to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

not from works which are in righteousness, which we did, but according to his own mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewal of the Holy Ghost,