for kings, and all who are in high position, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection.

But let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, being without reproach.

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over their own children and their own houses.

Let no one despise your youth; but become a model for believers, in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

But, if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to show regard to their own family, and to make returns to their parents; for this is acceptable before God.

Let a widow be enrolled, when she has become not less than sixty years old, having been a wife of one man,

If any believing woman has widows, let her relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, in order that it may relieve those who are really widows.

Let elders who preside well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in word and teaching.

Let as many as are slaves under a yoke account their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the teaching be not blasphemed.

And let those having believing masters not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the more, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

Who only hath immortality, inhabiting light unapproachable, Whom no man ever saw or is able to see; to Whom be honor and dominion eternal. Amen.