I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men,

who is willing that all men should be saved, and therefore come to the knowledge of the truth.

I desire therefore the men to pray in every place, lifting up devout hands, apart from anger and argument.

The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

He must also have a good reputation among outsiders [i.e., non-Christians], or else he could fall into reproach [i.e., from worldly people] and [therefore] into the devil's trap.

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

and will therefore receive condemnation because they have renounced their original pledge.

I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

as we brought nothing into the world, certain it is, we can carry nothing away. having therefore food and raiment,

having therefore food and raiment, let us be herewith content.