As I exhorted thee when I was going into Macedonia, abide at Ephesus; that thou mayest charge some to teach no other doctrine, Neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies,

From which some, having missed the mark, are turned aside to vain jangling:

Holding fast faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away, have made shipwreck of their faith.

But the spirit saith expresly, that in the later times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils,

For some are already turned aside after Satan.

Some mens sins are manifest before-hand, going before to judgment: and some they follow after.

In like manner the good works also of some are manifest; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

For the love of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting, have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

O Timotheus, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding prophane, empty babblings, and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called: Which some professing have erred from the faith.