The aim of your instruction must be love that springs from a pure heart and from a good conscience and from a sincere faith.

Women must listen quietly in church and be perfectly submissive.

I do not allow women to teach or to domineer over men; they must keep quiet.

A superintendent must be a man above reproach, only once married, temperate, sensible, a man of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

He must not be a new convert, or he may grow conceited and incur criticism from slanderous people.

He must also be a man of good standing with outsiders, or he may get into disgrace and be entrapped by the slanderers.

Assistants, in turn, must be serious, straightforward men, not addicted to wine or dishonest gain,

Their wives too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate, and perfectly trustworthy.

The assistants must be only once married, and manage their children and their households well.

This is what you must urge and teach.

No one under sixty years of age should be put on the list of widows. A widow must have been married but once,

For the Scripture says, "You must not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain," and the workman deserves his wages.

Those who are found guilty you must reprove publicly, as a warning to others.

All who are under the yoke of slavery must treat their masters with the greatest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be abused.

Those who have Christian masters must not think lightly of them because they are brothers; they must serve them all the more faithfully, because those who benefit by it are believers and hence dear to them. These are the things you must teach and preach.

But you, man of God, must fly from these things. Strive for uprightness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.