Assistant-Officers should be faithful husbands, and men who rule their children and their households well.

Now a woman who is really a widow and has been left [entirely] alone [without adequate income] trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

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

Make it a rule not to consider a charge preferred against an elder, unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.

Make it a rule not to ordain anyone in haste, and not to be responsible for the sins of others; keep yourself pure.

which he will make known in his own time, the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of those who reign as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords,