the [one who] alone possesses immortality, who lives [in] unapproachable light, whom no human being has seen nor is able to see, to whom [be] honor and eternal power. Amen.

being antecedently a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter: but I obtained mercy, because I did it in unbelief being ignorant;

not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil.

being guilty, because they have cast off their first faith.

being well-attested by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has helped those who are oppressed, if she has devoted herself to every good work.

And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge against them.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;

Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,