But let your words be in agreement with true and right teaching:

Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good;

let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.

Let servants be subject to their masters, please them in all things, not contradicting,

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.

Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; let them be obedient, ready for every good work;

But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile.

Send forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos with diligence, and let nothing be wanting to them;

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.