[Offer them] for kings and for all people in prominent [governmental] positions, so that we can live a peaceful and quiet life in all reverence [toward God] and respectability [toward people].

managing his own house well, and keeping his children under control and perfectly respectful??5 for if a man does not know how to conduct his own household, how can he look after a church of God?

For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?

And they must also be tested first; if they prove blameless, then they can serve as deacons.

No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

Think on these things. Devote your life to them so that everyone can see your progress.

Command these things also, so that they [i.e., the widows and their families] can live above reproach.

If any believing woman has widows in her family, she should help them, and the church should not be burdened, so that it can help those who are genuinely widows.

Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it can be confirmed by two or three witnesses.

In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can't be hidden.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

By doing this they store up a treasure for themselves that is a good foundation for the future, so that they can keep their hold on the life that is real.