desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they so strenuously affirm.

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.

But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.

And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable.

But younger widows decline; for when they grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

being guilty, because they have cast off their first faith.

And, at the same time, they learn also to be idle, going about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.

Of some men the sins are manifest beforehand, going before to judgment, and some also they follow after.

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren; but let them the rather serve them with subjection, because they are faithful and beloved, who profit by the good and ready service rendered. These things teach and exhort.

laying by for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of what is really life.