As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for an ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life.

And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.

For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

In like manner also there are good works that are evident; and such as are otherwise cannot be hid.

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

But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.