holding fast the sure word as it is taught, that he may be able, by sound teaching, both to exhort and to convince the opposers.

This testimony is true; wherefore rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

But do you speak the things that become sound teaching;

that the aged men be vigilant, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

sound speech that can not be condemned; that he that is opposed may be ashamed, seeing he has no evil thing to say of us.

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