desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.

understanding 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,

who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”