2To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3It was my desire, when I went on into Macedonia, that you might make a stop at Ephesus, to give orders to certain men not to put forward a different teaching,
4Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;
5But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:
6From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;
7Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.
8We are conscious that the law is good, if a man makes a right use of it,
