With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,

Such are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given up to Satan, so that they may say no more evil words against God.

Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.

And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.

Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.

But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

Give orders to this effect, so that no evil may be said of anyone.

So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,

Let all who are servants under the yoke give all honour to their masters, so that no evil may be said against the name of God and his teaching.

He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

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.

For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

To keep the word untouched by evil, clear from all shame, till the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ: