In hope of eternal life, (which God, not false, promised before eternal times;

If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly.

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

Not holding to Jewish fictions, and commands of men, having turned away from the truth.

They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.

The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good;

Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed.

The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.

Servants to be subordinate to their own masters, to be pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

Not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the doctrine of the Saviour our God in all things.

Not of works in justice which we did; but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renovation of the Holy Spirit;

And let ours also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.