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3 As I exhorted you to stay at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that you might charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
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As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer
4 neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith --
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or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work—which is by faith.
5 But the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
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The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;
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Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk.
7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
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They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.
8 But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,
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We know that the law is good if one uses it properly.
9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
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We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
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for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine
11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
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that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.
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