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

but hospitable, a lover of good, sober-minded, righteous, pious, temperate;

To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience have become defiled.

They profess to know God; but by their works they deny Him; being abominable, and disobedient, and for every good work worthless.

But speak the things which become the healthful teaching;

not keeping back anything, but showing forth all good faith; that they may adorn the teaching of our Savior God in all things.

But, when the kindness and the benevolence of God our Savior appeared,

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;

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