but has manifested in its own due season his word, in the proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to the commandment of our Saviour God;

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

All things are pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.

But do thou speak the things that become sound teaching;

not robbing their masters, but shewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the teaching which is of our Saviour God in all things.

But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God appeared,

not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain.