who wants all men to be saved and to come to know the truth.

managing his own house well, and keeping his children under control and perfectly respectful??5 for if a man does not know how to conduct his own household, how can he look after a church of God?

He must not be a new convert, or he may grow conceited and incur criticism from slanderous people.

They should first be tested, and afterward, if there is no fault to be found with them, they can serve as assistants.

so that if I am delayed, you may know how we are to conduct ourselves in the household of God, for it is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set those who believe an example in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.

But a woman who is really a widow, and has no children, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to prayers and entreaties night and day.

No one under sixty years of age should be put on the list of widows. A widow must have been married but once,

who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.