Even as I begged thee to remain in Ephesus, when I was going to Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin some not to teach other doctrines,

but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness;

The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;

(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)

Enjoin and teach these things.

Let the elders who take the lead among the saints well be esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in word and teaching;

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren; but let them the rather serve them with subjection, because they are faithful and beloved, who profit by the good and ready service rendered. These things teach and exhort.

If any one teach differently, and do not accede to sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which is according to piety,