Even as I exhorted thee to remain in Ephesus, when I was journeying into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some -

For, to this end, are we toiling and contending, because we have set our hope on a Living God, Who is Saviour of all men - specially, of such as believe.

An elderly man, do not thou reprimand, but beseech him, as though he were thy father, - younger men, as brothers,

Elderly women, as mothers, younger women, as sisters, in all chastity.

But, younger widows, decline thou; for, as soon as they wax wanton against the Christ, to marry, are they determined, -

Having, as sentence, - that, their first faith, they have set at nought;

I am minded, therefore, that, the younger ones, marry, bear children, be mistress of the house, - giving, no single occasion, unto the opposer, as a cause, of reviling;

Let, as many as are servants under a yoke, be counting, their own masters, worthy, of all honour, lest, the name of God and the teaching, be defamed.