1 ³ As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, 1 ⁴ nor to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies which promote speculations rather than the divine training that is in faith; 1 ⁵ whereas the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith. 1 ⁶ Certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain discussion, 1 ⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions.

1 ⁸ Now we know that the law is good, if anyone uses it lawfully, 1 ⁹ understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1 ¹⁰ immoral persons, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, 1 ¹¹ in accordance with the glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.