and at the appointed time has made known His word and revealed it as His message, through preaching, which was entrusted to me according to the command of God our Savior—

Now this tendency is true. So continue correcting them severely, that they may be healthy in faith,

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;

And so, made heirs by his own grace, eternal life we now embrace.