Whereas she who lives for pleasure and self-indulgence is spiritually dead even while she still lives.

But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.

The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

Likewise also the women should adorn themselves in appropriate clothing, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold jewelry or pearls or expensive clothing,

Women must likewise be worthy of respect, not malicious gossips, but self-controlled, [thoroughly] trustworthy in all things.

If you point out these instructions to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished [through study] on the words of the faith and of the good [Christian] doctrine which you have closely followed.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not devoted to a lot of wine, not greedy for money;

In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise cannot be hidden.

If there be any that provideth not for his own, and namely for them of his household, the same denieth the faith, and is worse than an infidel.