Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to declare the faith which recommends men to the divine favour, and to convince them of that truth, which leads to piety,

attach'd to the truth, that has been taught him, that he may be able to teach others sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it.

the charge is true: wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they maybe sound in the faith;

not doating on Jewish Fables, and the tenets of men, that deviate from the truth.

but to lectures on virtue, that they may teach the young women prudence, to love their husbands,

that the word of God may not be blasphemed. the young men likewise exhort to be modest.

gravity; let your doctrine be sound and inoffensive, that your opponents may be ashamed, and have nothing that is ill to say of us.

entirely obsequious without grumbling. not to pilfer, but to show the strictest fidelity; that they may do honour to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.

in expectation of that desirable happiness, the glorious appearance of the supreme God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ,

that being justified by his favour, we should have the inheritance of eternal life, according to our hopes.

This is a secure rule, and what I would have you constantly maintain, that they who have believed in God, should take care to be examples of virtue, for that is commendable and useful to mankind.

A man that is an heretick, after the first and second admonition, avoid:

it being plain that such a person is perverted, and knows in his own conscience that his tenets are false.

dispatch Zenas the lawyer, and Apollos, and take care that nothing be wanting to their journey.

Let our brethren too learn some honest profession to supply their occasions, that they may not be destitute of an income.

All that are with me salute you. salute our christian friends. grace be with you all. AMEN.