Correcting False Teachers

(Titus 1:10–16)

3 As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines 4 [or] devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculation rather than [the] stewardship of God’s [work], which [is] by faith.[fn]

5 The goal of [our] instruction is [the] love [that comes] from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith. 6 Some have strayed from [ these ways ] [and] turned aside to empty talk. 7 They want to be teachers of the law, [but] they do not understand what they are saying [or] [that] which they so confidently assert.

8 Now we know that the law [is] good, if one uses it legitimately. 9 We realize that law is not enacted for [the] righteous, but for [the] lawless and rebellious, for [the] ungodly and sinful, for [the] unholy and profane, for killers of father [or] mother, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders[fn] [and] liars [and] perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching 11 that agrees with the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.