to Timothy my true son in the faith, be grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

He ought also to have an honorable testimony from those that are without, least he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Now the Spirit expressly saith, that in latter times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to seducing spirits,

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

And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tatlers also and busy-bodies, talking of things unbecoming them.

Receive not an accusation against an elder, unless from two or three witnesses.

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,

and void of truth, accounting gain to be godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

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.

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