To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.

And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle (what I say is true, not false,) and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.

This is a true saying, A man desiring the position of a Bishop has a desire for a good work.

Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.

But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

This is a true saying, in which all may put their faith.

Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.

And let those whose masters are of the faith have respect for them because they are brothers, working for them the more readily, because those who take part in the good work are of the faith and are dear. Give orders and teaching about these things.

If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,

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.

But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:

Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.