1Admonish them to be subjects [or to be subject] to princes, and to powers; to obey to that that is said, and to be ready to all good work;

2to blaspheme no man, to be not full of chiding, but temperate [or patient], showing all mildness to all men.

3For we were sometime unwise, unbelieveful, erring, and serving to desires, and to diverse lusts, doing in malice and envy, worthy to be hated, hating each other.

4But when the benignity and the manhood [or the humanity] of our Saviour God appeared,

5not of works of rightwiseness that we did, but by his mercy he made us safe, by [the] washing, [or baptism], of again-begetting, and again-newing of the Holy Ghost,

6whom he shedded [out] into us plenteously by Jesus Christ, our Saviour,

7that we justified by his grace, be heirs by hope of everlasting life.

8A true word is [this], and of these things I will that thou confirm others, that they that believe in God, be busy to be above [or to be before] others in good works. These things be good, and profitable to men.

9And eschew thou foolish questions, and genealogies, and strivings [or strives], and fightings of the law; for those be unprofitable and vain.

10Eschew [or Shun] thou a man heretic, after one and the second correction;

11witting that he that is such a manner man is subverted, and trespasseth, and is condemned by his own doom.

12When I send to thee Artemas, or Tychicus, hie thou [or haste] to come to me to Nicopolis; for I have purposed to dwell in winter there.

13Busily before send [or send before] Zenas, a wise man of law, and Apollos, that nothing fail to them.

14They that be of ours, learn to be governors [or to be before] in good works, to necessary uses, that they be not without fruit.

15All men that be with me greet thee well. Greet thou well them, that love us in [the] faith. The grace of God be with you all. Amen.