If you represent these things to the brethren, you will appear to be a true minister of Jesus Christ, brought up in the institutions of faith, and the true doctrine to which you were attach'd.

These things recommend and teach.

meditate upon these things, be wholly employ'd about them, that your proficiency may appear to all.

take care how you behave, and what you teach. persevere in these duties: for by the practice of them, you will save both yourself, and those who hear you.

these things recommend to them, that they may be without reproach.

I conjure you before God, before our Lord Jesus Christ, and his chosen angels, to observe these rules without prepossession and partiality.

to observe these precepts, to lead an unspotted life without reproof until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,