and not to listen to legends or exhaustive lists of ancestors. These [only] serve to arouse speculations, rather than [promote] God's plan which is based on faith.

To the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

For there is [only] one God, and [only] one Mediator between God and mankind, the Man Christ Jesus,

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

They should be tested first, and only appointed to their Office if no objection is raised against them.

A deacon too must have only one wife, and manage his children and household well.

For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if only it is received with thankfulness.

But reject those myths fit only for the godless and gullible, and train yourself for godliness.

exercise yourself in piety: for those exercises which relate only to the body are of little consequence, but piety is of absolute use, having the promises both of the present life, and of the life that is to come.

Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

Besides, as they get the habit of gadding about from house to house, they learn to be idle, and not only idle but gossips and busybodies, talking of things they ought not to mention.

Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.

Stop drinking water only, but take a little wine to strengthen your stomach and relieve its frequent attacks.

Some men's sins are perfectly evident, and lead them right on to judgment, but there are others whose sins only dog their steps.

He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain.

That thou keep the commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, Which in his times the blessed and only Potentate will shew,

which will be brought about in His own time by the blessed, only Sovereign, the King of kings, the Lord of lords,

Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.

storing up for themselves what in the future will prove to be a good foundation, that they may gain the only true Life.