Some individuals have wandered away from these things into empty arguments and useless discussions,

Although they desire to be teachers of the law, they understand neither the words they use nor the subjects they talk about.

Deacons in turn are to be serious men; they are not to be tale-bearers or addicted to drink or pilfering;

Do not say sharp words to one who has authority in the church, but let your talk be as to a father, and to the younger men as to brothers:

And not only that, but they learn to be idle as they go about from house to house. Nor are they merely idle, but they also become gossips and busy-bodies, and talk of what they ought not.

he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, which produce envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions,

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted [to you]. Turn away from pointless empty talk and contradictions of [what is] falsely called knowledge,