nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies; which, indeed, occasion disputes rather than God's dispensation, which is in faith, so do I now.

which some having missed turned aside to vain talk;

according to the Gospel of the glory of the Blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

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

holding faith, and a good conscience, which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith;

but (which becomes women professing godliness) through good works.

For those serving well as deacons acquire for themselves a noble standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

but, if I delay, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in a house of God, which, indeed, is an assembly of the living God, a pillar and basis of the truth,

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created for reception with thanksgiving by those who believe and have full knowledge of the truth.

Suggesting these things to the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have strictly followed;

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

Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership.

But younger widows refuse; for, when they grow wanton against Christ, they wish to marry,

And, at the same time, they learn to be idle, going around from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busy-bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

he has become puffed up, knowing nothing, but morbid about questions and word-battles, out of which come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

But those, purposing to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which, indeed, sink men into destruction and perdition.

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

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

which in His own times the Happy and Only Potentate will show, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on that which is really life.

O Timothy, guard the deposit; turning away from the profane babblings, and oppositions of that which is falsely called knowledge;

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