holding fast the sure word according to what he was taught, that he may be able by sound teaching both to exhort, and to refute the gainsayers.

This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

But do thou speak the things which become sound teaching;

that aged men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

sound speech that cannot be condemned; that he that is opposed to us may be put to shame, having no evil thing to say of us.

When I shall have sent Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, use diligence to come to me to Nicopolis; for there I have determined to pass the winter.