This testimony is true: on account of which cause convict them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith,

That the elderly men be sober, grave, prudent, sound in faith, in divine love, in patience:

the sound word, irrefutable, in order that the adversary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning us.

When I shall send Artemas or Tychicus to you, hasten to come to me at Nicopolis: for I have determined to spend the winter there.

Send on Zenas the lawyer and Apollos speedily, in order that nothing may be lacking to them.