if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible.

For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre;

whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain.

not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men turning away from the truth.

likewise that the elderly women be reverent in demeanor, not tattlers, not given to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

to be prudent, chaste, domestic, good, submissive to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

That servants submit to their own masters, that they be obedient in all things; not speaking back;

not purloining, but exhibiting all good faith, that they may adorn the teaching of God our Saviour in all things.

not from works which are in righteousness, which we did, but according to his own mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewal of the Holy Ghost,

And let our people indeed learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, in order that they may not be unfruitful.