but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

For indeed a presiding officer, as God's steward, ought to be blameless, not self-willed or quick-tempered, not a drunkard or violent, or greedy of filthy lucre;

Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.