to Timothy, my beloved son in the faith. Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

but the end of the commandment is divine love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and faith free from hypocrisy:

from which certain ones having deflected have gone out into empty talking,

But it also behooves him indeed to have a beautiful testimony from the aliens, in order that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons,

forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.

he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings,

wranglings of men having been corrupted as to their mind and turned away from the truth, considering that gain is godliness.

For the love of money is a root of all evils: which some seeking after have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But you, O man of God, fly from these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, divine love, patience, meekness.