2. unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3. 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. 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. But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
6. from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;
7. desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.