^{3 Ref} As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

^{4 Ref} neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; `so do I now'.

^{5 Ref} But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

^{6 Ref} from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;

^{7 Ref} desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.