Let the woman, in freedom from care, learn in all subjection.

And let these also first be tried; then let them perform the office of footman, being blameless.

Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over the children and their own houses.

Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.

Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,

If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows.

Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke deem their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrines be not defamed.

And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech.

And having sustenance and covering, with these let us be contented.