As I exhorted you to continue in Ephesus, when I was journeying into Macedonia, that you might charge certain ones not to teach a different doctrine,

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,

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered up to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak truth, I lie not), a teacher of gentiles in faith and truth.

in like manner, that women adorn themselves in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety, not with braided hair, and gold, or pearls, or costly raiment,

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

And Adam was not deceived; but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into transgression.

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

(but, if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of an assembly of God?);

not a novice; lest, being puffed up, he fall into condemnation of the Devil.

It is needful that deacons, in like manner, be grave, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy of base gain;

It is needful that their wives, in like manner, be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership.

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

Now she that is really a widow, and left alone, has set her hope on God, and continues in supplications and prayers, night and day.

But, if any one provides not for his own, and especially for his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

And, at the same time, they learn to be idle, going around from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busy-bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

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.

For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox while threshing," and "The laborer is worthy of his wages."

Against an elder receive not an accusation, except on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

In like manner also the works that are good are openly manifest; and those that are otherwise can not be hid.

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.

If anyone teaches otherwise, and consents not to healthful words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching according to godliness,

Charge those who are rich in this present age, not to be high-minded, nor to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, Who giveth us richly all things for enjoyment;