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The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

Of the many English commentaries on these letters, none are as replete with quotations from extra-biblical materials as this work by Conzelmann and Dibelius. The authors provide references to Hellenistic, Jewish and Christian sources, specifically as each pertains to the linguistic and conceptual problems the letters contain.

Warning Against False Doctrine 1 Timothy 6:2b–5* 2b This is the way you should teach and preach. 3/ But if someone spreads false teachings and does not adhere to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the teaching which is in accordance with (right) religion, 4/ then he is a pompous (person) who does not understand anything, but is diseased with racking of the brain and disputes about words. Out of these comes jealousy, quarreling, slandering, false suspicions—5/ (anyway) quarrelsome disputes
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