men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.

[For a bishop must be above reproach ??he is a steward of God's house ??he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

Tell servants to be submissive to their masters and to give them satisfaction all round, not to be refractory,

not to embezzle, but to prove themselves truly faithful at all points, so as to be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Saviour in all respects.

they must abuse no one, they must not quarrel, but be conciliatory and display perfect gentleness to all men.

and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit

Our people must really learn to profess honest occupations, so as to be able to meet such special occasions; they must not be idle.