2 to Timothy, my true child in faith: grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. [AB]

3 [2] I repeat the request I made of you when I was on my way to Macedonia, [AC] that you stay in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to teach false doctrines

4 [3] or to concern themselves with myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the plan of God that is to be received by faith. [AD]