for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.

Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness.

They must also first be tested; and then if they are beyond reproach, let them serve as deacons.

Let no one look down on your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you through prophetic utterance when the council of elders laid their hands on you.

If any woman who is a believer has dependent widows, she must assist them, and let not the church be burdened, so that it may assist those who are real widows.

Let all who are under the yoke of slavery regard their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be spoken against.

who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.