Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,