as laid down in the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been entrusted to me.

although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron,

A widow, to be placed upon the list, must be not less than sixty years old, and one who has been the wife of but one husband.

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows.