But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;

But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,

But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.

And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.