Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ (according to the faith of God's elect, in the acknowledging of the truth which is according to godliness

on hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the eternal times,

but revealed His Word in its own times in a proclamation, with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior,)

This witness is true; for which cause convict them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,

But you speak the things which become sound doctrine:

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,