nor attend to fables and endless genealogies, which occasion debates, rather than pious edification in the faith:

from which some having swerved are turned aside to vain discourses;

which is according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I was intrusted.

This charge I commit to thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which before came on thee, that by them thou mightest war a good warfare,

having faith and a good conscience, which some putting away have made shipwreck concerning the faith:

for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle. I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not; I am a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

and enjoining abstinence from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by those that believe and know the truth.

If thou lay these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, as one brought up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which thou hast attained.

For bodily exercise profiteth little, but piety is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come:

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

These things teach and exhort. If any one teach otherwise, and adhere not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to godliness;

he is proud, knowing nothing, but is delirious about questions and strifes of words: from which cometh envy, contention, calumnies, wicked suspicions, perverse debates of men corrupted in mind,

But they, that will be rich, fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into ruin and perdition.

For the love of money is the root of all evils, which some coveting after have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Maintain the glorious combat of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast made a good profession before many witnesses.

which He will manifest in his own times, who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords,

O Timothy, keep that with which thou art entrusted, avoiding profane empty babblings, and the oppositions of science falsely so called:

which some pretending to, have erred from the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.