holding fast the faithful Word according to the doctrine, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers.

This witness is true; for which cause convict them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,

But you speak the things which become sound doctrine:

aged men to be temperate, sensible, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience.

in sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

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