nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]

which some having missed turned aside to vain words,

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted.

and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may perform an honorable service,

having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith;

of which I was made a herald and an apostle,?? speak the truth, I lie not,?? teacher of nations in faith and truth.

I wish also that men should pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputations;

but with good works, which become women professing godliness.

For they who exercise the deaconship well, procure for themselves an honorable standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

who forbid to marry, [command] to abstain from meat, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and those who know the truth.

Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the good instruction which you have followed;

Neglect not the gift which is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the imposition of hands of the eldership.

But reject the younger widows; for when they fall into pleasure to the neglect of Christ, they wish to marry,

I wish therefore the younger women to marry, bear children, keep house, give no occasion of reproach to the enemy;

in like manner also good works are manifest, and those which are otherwise cannot be hid.

If any one teaches differently, and consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to piety,

he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

But those who wish to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and made the good profession before many witnesses.

which the blessed and only Potentate will show in its times, the King of kings and Lord of Lords,

which some having professed have erred from the faith. The grace be with you.