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Warning against False Teachers

As I urged you when I was going to Macedo′nia, remain at Ephesus that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies[a] which promote speculations rather than the divine training[b] that is in faith; whereas the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith.

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Footnotes

  1. 1.4 myths and endless genealogies: A reference to the Jewish legends and spurious pedigrees added by false Judaizers to the Biblical narratives; cf. the Book of Jubilees.
  2. 1 Timothy 1:4 Or stewardship, or order

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