charge them to continue doing good and being rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous hearted,

Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.

Some have failed here, and have turned aside to empty argument.

O Timothy, keep what is deposited in your care, avoiding the prophane empty declamations and objections of a spurious science, which some have profess'd,

or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.