So lay down the following rules, to prevent any reproach being incurred.
Give these orders and teach these lessons.
Tell them all this, exhort and reprove, with full authority; let no one slight you.
That is a true statement. So deal sharply with them, to have them sound in the faith
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign,
Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life;
As I asked you when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus and warn certain individuals against teaching novelties
so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;