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3 Just as I urged you [when I] traveled to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus, so that you may instruct certain people not to teach other 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 and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause useless speculations rather than God's plan [that is] by 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 goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,
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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 some have deviated, [and] have turned away into fruitless discussion,
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Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk.
7 wanting to be teachers of the law, [although they] do not understand either [the things] which they are saying or [the things] concerning which they are speaking confidently.
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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 anyone makes use of it lawfully,
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We know that the law is good if one uses it properly.
9 knowing this, that the law [is] not given for a righteous [person] but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and totally worldly, for the one who kills his father and the one who kills his mother, for murderers,
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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 sexually immoral people, homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and {whatever} else is opposed to sound teaching,
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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 glorious gospel of the blessed God that I was entrusted with.
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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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