That statement is true. For this reason, refute them sharply so that they may become healthy in the faith

To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

that, having been justified by his grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.