Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began;

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of rebirth and renewing by the Holy Spirit,