willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:

who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,

be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership;

of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things;

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,

and at the same time also, they learn to be idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;

no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

and those having believing masters, let them not slight them, because they are brethren, but rather let them serve, because they are stedfast and beloved, who of the benefit are partaking. These things be teaching and exhorting;

if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,

wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate,