he should be a man who rules his own household well, and keeps his children ever under control and thoroughly well behaved.

For those who have well discharged the duties of a deacon are gaining an honorable position for themselves, as well as much fearless confidence in the faith of Christ Jesus.

Look to yourself as well as to your teaching. Persevere in this, for your doing so will mean Salvation for yourself as well as for your hearers.

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

A deacon too must have only one wife, and manage his children and household well.

Physical training, indeed, is of some service, but religion is of service for everything, for it contains a promise for the present life as well as the future.

Elders who do their duties well should be considered as deserving twice the salary they get especially those who keep on toiling in preaching and teaching.

Those who have Christian masters must not pay them less respect because they are brothers; they must serve them all the better, because those who get the benefit of their service are believers and so are dear to them. These are the things that you must continue to teach and urge them to do.

I know well that "the Law is good" if a man use it lawfully;

Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith: