nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies (which provide doubts rather than the nurture of God in faith).

from which some, having swerved, have turned aside to foolish talking,

desiring to be teachers of the law, neither understanding what they say nor that which they affirm.

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

This charge I commit to you, my son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before about you, in order that you might war a good warfare by them,

holding faith and a good conscience, which some have put away and made shipwreck as to faith.

but with good works, which becomes women professing godliness.

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

forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Having suggested these things to the brothers, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the Words of Faith and by the good doctrine which you have followed.

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is to come.

Do not neglect the gift in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the body of elders.

he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions,

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

For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.

who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.