This charge I commit to you, child Timothy, according to the prophecies going before in respect to you, that you may war with these the noble warfare;

Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.

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now a servant of the Lord must not engage in strife, but should be gentle towards all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong,

and He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe, having been made a disciple to the Kingdom of heaven, is like a householder, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old."

It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach,

Suggesting these things to the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have strictly followed;

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;