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¹ PAUL, a legate of Jesus the Messiah, by the command of God our life-giver, and of the Messiah, Jesus our hope;² 2 to Timothy, [fn] true son in the faith: grace and mercy and peace, from God our Father, and the Messiah, Jesus our Lord. ³ When I was going into Macedonia, I requested thee to remain at Ephesus, and to charge certain persons not to teach different doctrines;⁴ and not to throw themselves into fables and stories about genealogies, of which there is no end, which produce contention rather than edification in the faith of God.

⁵ Now the end of the command is love, which is from a pure heart, and from a good conscience, and from true faith.⁶ But from these some have strayed, and have turned aside to vain words;⁷ because they wished to be teachers of the law, while they understood not what they speak, nor the thing about which they contend.⁸ Now, we know, that the law is a good thing, if a man conduct himself in it, according to the law,⁹ he knowing that the law was not established for the righteous, but for the evil, and the rebellious, and the ungodly, and the sinful, and the perverse and for the impure, and for smiters of their fathers and smiters of their mothers, and for murderers,¹⁰ and for whoremongers, and for copulators with males, and for the stealers of free people, and for liars, and for violators of oaths, and for whatever is contrary to sound doctrine,¹¹ 11 [namely] that of the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I am intrusted [fn] {namely}