Warning Against False Teachers
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As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that
you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, 4nor
to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote
speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. 5The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 6Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, 7desiring
to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are
saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.
8Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9understanding
this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless
and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and
profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, 10the
sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars,
perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, 11in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
Christ Jesus Came to Save Sinners