For fornicators, for homosexuals, for slave traders, for liars, for perjurers, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

Even so must their wives be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

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

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Having judgment, because they have cast off their first faith.

Against an elder receive not an accusation, unless before two or three witnesses.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.