But we know that the law is good if a man use it according to its institution;

knowing this, that the law is not made for the just man, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for men-slayers,

for whoremongers, for sodomites, for stealers of men, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing which is contrary to sound doctrine,

who wills all men to be saved, and come to the acknowledgment of truth.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

I will then that men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubting:

for I permit not a woman to teach in public, or to assume authority over the man, but to abide in silence.

IT is a true saying, If a man seeks the office of a bishop, he desireth a laudable employment.

not addicted to wine, not using hard words or blows, not greedy of base gain; but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

for if a man knoweth not how to order his own family, how shall he take proper care of the church of God?

men who teach lies with hypocrisy; and have their own consciences cauterised;

For therefore do we labour and are exposed to abuse, because we have hoped in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be a pattern of the faithful, in discourse; in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Let these things be thy care; be wholly devoted to them; that thy progress may be evident to all men.

REBUKE not harshly an aged man, but admonish him as a father; the younger men as brethren;

But if any man provide not for his own relations, and especially for those more immediately of his own family, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

But if any man or woman who believes hath widows their relations, let him provide for them, and let not the church be burdened; that there may be a sufficiency for the real widows.

Lay hands hastily on no man, nor share another's sins: keep thyself pure;

Some men's sins are glaringly manifest, going before to judgment; and after others also they follow [to detection].

If any man teach another doctrine, and attend not to the sound words, which are those of Jesus Christ our Lord, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

perverse wranglings of men corrupt in mind, and destitute of truth, who think to make gain of godliness; depart from such men.

For they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful passions, which sink men in the abyss of destruction and perdition.

For the love of money is the root of all evils, which some coveting, have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But thou, O man of God, flee from these things; but pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

who alone possesseth immortality, inhabiting light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and glory eternal. Amen.

which some affecting have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee.??men.