At my departure from Macedonia, I advised you to stay at Ephesus in order to charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,

don't give occasion to any to despise your youth: but be a pattern to believers in your discourse, in your behaviour, by your charity, faith and chastity.

as for the widow, who is really such, and without any assistance, let her place all her hopes in God, and be assiduous in supplication and prayer.

If any convert has widow-relations, let such relieve them, that the church may not be charged, but with the relief of such as are entirely destitute.

don't receive any accusation against a pastor, but upon the deposition of two or three witnesses.

Don't be hasty to ordain any man: and be not accessory to the faults of others: preserve your own integrity.

The vices of some men are so notorious, they prevent any inquisition: others don't discover themselves till they have been ordain'd.

If any one deviate from this doctrine, not adhering to the wholesome instructions of our Lord Jesus Christ, the true doctrine of piety,