to stop devoting themselves to myths and never-ending pedigrees, for such things lead to controversies rather than stimulate our trusteeship to God through faith.

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;

for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead peaceful, quiet lives in perfect piety and seriousness.

My desire, then, is that it should be the custom everywhere for the men to lead the prayers, with hands reverently uplifted, avoiding heated controversy.

Now an overseer must be blameless and beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

As for profane legends and old wives' tales, leave them alone. Train yourself to lead a religious life;

But refuse younger widows, for whenever their physical desires lead them away from Christ, they want to marry,

The elders who lead well must be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor by speaking and teaching.

Some men's sins are very evident and clearly lead them on to judgment, but the sins of others lag behind.

he is a conceited ignoramus with a morbid appetite for discussions and controversies which lead to envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions,

to observe these precepts, to lead an unspotted life without reproof until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,