but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of holy life, self-controlled,

To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean.

They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.

But you must teach people the things that properly belong to wholesome teaching.

Teach the older women, too, to be reverent in their behavior, and not to gossip or be slaves of drink, but to be teachers of what is right,

and present a wholesome, unobjectionable message, so that your opponent may be put to shame at finding nothing bad to say about us.

or steal from them, but to show such perfect good faith as to do credit to the teaching about God our Savior, by everything they do.

But when the goodness and kindness of God our Savior were revealed,

he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

But have nothing to do with foolish controversies, pedigrees, strife, and wrangles about the Law, for they are profitless and futile.