Yet for this very cause I obtained mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might display all his boundless patience as an illustration for those who should later believe in him, and so gain life eternal.

whose will it is that all men should be saved, and come into full knowledge of the truth.

My wish, then, is that in every place the men should offer prayer, lifting up holy hands, free from anger and disputation;

The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;

he should be a man who rules his own household well, and keeps his children ever under control and thoroughly well behaved.

He should also have a good reputation among outsiders, lest he fall into reproach, and into a snare of the devil.

They should first be tested, and after that, if they are found irreproachable, let them serve as deacons.

I am writing this to you in case I should be detained, to let you see how you ought to behave in the household of God??he Church of the everliving God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.