The Charge Against False Teaching

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As I counseled you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus, so that you may order certain people who are teaching a different doctrine to stop.

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Have them stop devoting their attention to myths and never-ending genealogies; these divert people to speculating instead of doing God’s work, which requires trust.

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The purpose of this order is to promote love from a clean heart, from a good conscience and from sincere trust.

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Some, by aiming amiss, have wandered off into fruitless discussion.

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They want to be teachers of Torah, but they understand neither their own words nor the matters about which they make such emphatic pronouncements.

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We know that the Torah is good, provided one uses it in the way the Torah itself intends.

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We are aware that Torah is not for a person who is righteous, but for those who are heedless of Torah and rebellious, ungodly and sinful, wicked and worldly, for people who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

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the sexually immoral — both heterosexual and homosexual — slave dealers, liars, perjurers, and anyone who acts contrary to the sound teaching

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that accords with the Good News of the glorious and blessed God. This Good News was entrusted to me;

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