Warning Against False Teachers
3 [Titus 1:5] As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not ch. 6:3;[Gal. 1:6,7]to teach any different doctrine, 4 nor ch. 4:7;2 Tim. 4:4;Titus 1:14;2 Pet. 1:16to devote themselves to myths and endless Titus 3:9genealogies, which promote ch. 6:4speculations rather than the stewardship1:4 Or good order from God that is by faith. 5 The aim of our charge is love 2 Tim. 2:22that issues from a pure heart and 1 Pet. 3:16,21a good conscience and Rom. 12:9;2 Tim. 1:5a sincere faith. 6 Certain persons, by ch. 6:21swerving from these, have wandered away into Titus 1:10vain discussion, 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, [ch. 6:4;Col. 2:18]without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.