Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;

Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;

For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.

In the same way, there are good works which are clearly seen; and those which are not so, may not be kept secret.

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.