Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the full knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

upon hope of eternal life which God, Who cannot lie, promised before eternal times,

but in His own seasons manifested His word in a proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

holding fast the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the healthful doctrine, and to convict those who contradict.

This testimony is true. For which cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

But speak the things which become the healthful teaching;

that aged women, in like manner, be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

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