And we know the law good, if any use it lawfully;

For fornicators, unchaste, man-stealers, liars, the perjured, and if there be any other thing opposed to sound doctrine;

Faithful the word, If any strive for superintendence, he eagerly desires a good work.

(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.

And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving.

If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows.

If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion;