from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

Which, some professing, concerning the faith, have missed the mark! Favour be with you.

Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.

and devilish doctrine of them which speak false through hypocrisy, and have their consciences marked with a hot iron,