As I exhorted thee to stay at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain persons not to teach other doctrine,

Let the woman learn in silence with all submission: but I permit not a woman to teach,

hospitable, able to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain, moderate, not quarrelsome,

(for if any one know not how to govern his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

(And let these also first be proved, then let them take the office of deacons, if they be found blameless.)

These things declare and teach.

Take heed to thyself, and to thy doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this, thou wilt both save thyself and those that hear thee.

These things teach and exhort. If any one teach otherwise, and adhere not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to godliness;