he must keep in mind that no law is ever made for honest people but for the lawless and the insubordinate, for the impious and the sinful, for the irreverent and the profane, for parricides and matricides, murderers,

To the King of eternity, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever: Amen.

keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. Certain individuals have scouted the good conscience and thus come to grief over their faith ??20 including Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have made over to Satan. That will teach them to stop their blasphemous ongoings!

Now I want the men to offer prayer at any meeting of the church; and let the hands they lift to heaven be holy ??they must be free from anger and dissension.

It is a popular saying that "whoever aspires to office is set upon an excellent occupation."

for then it is consecrated by the prayer said over it.

whereas the widow who plunges into dissipation is dead before ever she dies.

Whoever does not provide for his own relatives and particularly for his own family, has repudiated the faith: he is worse than an infidel.

Good works are equally conspicuous; and even when they are not, they cannot escape notice for ever.

who alone has immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honour and eternal dominion: Amen.