Yet a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint.

He ought not to be a new convert, for fear he should be blinded with pride and come under the same condemnation as the Devil.

She must have been true to her one husband, and well reported of for good deeds, as having brought up children, received strangers hospitably, washed the feet of God's people, given relief to the distressed, and devoted herself to good works of every kind.

he is puffed up with pride and has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions,

and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects are disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge of the truth; who imagine that godliness means gain.

for we brought nothing into the world, nor can we carry anything out of it;

For, as its appointed time, this will be brought about by the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,