nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies; which, indeed, occasion disputes rather than God's dispensation, which is in faith, so do I now.

not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

Until I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching.

Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership.

Attend to these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your progress may be manifest to all.

And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

I desire, therefore, that younger widows marry, bear children, rule a house-hold, give no occasion to the adversary for reproach;