As I exhorted thee to stay at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain persons not to teach other doctrine,

but in good works, as becometh women professing godliness.

If thou lay these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, as one brought up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which thou hast attained.

Do not chide a senior, but exhort him as a father; and younger men as brethren:

the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity.

The sins of some men are notorious, leading as it were to their condemnation; and some more artful they follow after.

Let as many as are servants under the yoke account their own masters worthy of all honor; that the name of God and his doctrine may not be blasphemed: