according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

through the pretensions of liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron,

Now she who is a real widow, and who has been left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

A widow is to be put on the list only if she is not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one husband,

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge,