⁷ and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

⁴ nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

¹⁶ and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

¹⁴ and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.

⁹ and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.

¹² teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

⁵ And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,

⁶ and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,

⁷ and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

⁸ for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁴ not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

⁴ and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

¹² and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

²³ and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

²⁰ O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

¹¹ and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

¹⁶ and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

¹⁰ but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.

¹⁶ and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.