Even as I begged you to remain at Ephesus, when I was going to Macedonia, that you might charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, as a pattern to those being about to believe on Him to life everlasting.

holding faith and a good conscience, which some have put away and made shipwreck as to faith.

Do not sharply rebuke an elder, but exhort as a father, and the younger ones as brothers,

older women as mothers, the younger as sisters in all purity.

Let as many slaves as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name and doctrine of God may not be blasphemed.