Well, my very first counsel is that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgiving, are to be offered for all men ??2 for kings and all in authority, that we may lead a tranquil life in all piety and gravity;

Do not neglect the gift [that is] in you, that was granted to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.

I counsel therefore the younger women to marry, bear children, guide the family, give no occasion of reproach to the adversary.

virtue wears no disguise, and vice cannot be long conceal'd.