knowing this, that law is not enacted for a righteous man, but for lawless and unruly ones, for ungodly and sinful, for unholy and profane, for patricides, and matricides, for man-slayers,

for fornicators, for sodomites, for man-stealers, for liars, for false swearers; and whatever else is contrary to healthful teaching;

I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;

Who wisheth all men to be saved, and to come into a full knowledge of truth.

For there is one God, one Mediator also between God and men, a Man, Christ Jesus,

I desire, therefore, that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing;

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

in hypocrisy of men speaking lies, branded in their own conscience with a hot iron;

For to this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, Who is Savior of all men, especially of believers.

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men, as brethren:

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

Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.

Some men's sins are openly manifest, going before to judgment; and some men also they follow after.

wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing godliness to be a source of gain.

But those, purposing to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which, indeed, sink men into destruction and perdition.

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

But do you, O man of God, flee these things: but pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, mildness.

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.