As I besought thee to remain in Ephesus, going into Macedonia, that thou mightest proclaim to some not to teach another doctrine,

Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers,

Being before slandering, expelling, and an abuser: but I was commiserated, because I did, not knowing, in unbelief.

Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme.

For which I was placed a herald, and the sent, (I speak truth in Christ, I lie not;) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth.

And likewise the women in well-arranged simplicity, with modesty and discretion, arrange themselves; not in tresses, or gold, or pearls, or expensive clothing;

And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care.

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, was in the transgression.

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser.

Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;

Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things.

Neglect not the power which in thee, which was given thee by the gift of prophecy, with the putting on of hands of the council of elders.

An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren;

And she truly a widow, and forsaken, has hoped in God, and remains in supplications and prayers night and day.

And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving.

Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,

And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming.

If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows.

For the writing says, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox grinding. And, The laborer worthy of his hire.

Against an elder receive not an accusation from without, except from two or three witnesses.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke deem their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrines be not defamed.

And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech.

If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion;

To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;