holding fast to the faithful message according to the teaching, in order that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to reprove those who speak against [it].

This testimony is true, for which reason reprove them severely, in order that they may be sound in the faith,

But you, speak [the things] which are fitting for sound instruction.

Older men are to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, [and] in endurance.

sound message beyond reproach, in order that {an opponent} may be put to shame, [because he] has nothing bad to say concerning us.

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make haste to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

Diligently send on their way Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that {they may lack nothing}.