As I exhorted thee to abide at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin certain persons to introduce no different doctrine,

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having renounced, as touching the faith, have been shipwrecked:

of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered over unto Satan, that they may be corrected, so as to blaspheme no more.

but as becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

REBUKE not harshly an aged man, but admonish him as a father; the younger men as brethren;

the aged women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn as their first duty to shew their piety towards their own family, and make a grateful return to their progenitors: for this is becoming and acceptable before God.

LET as many slaves as are under the yoke account their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.