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.

he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, a just man, a religious man, and abstemious;

they must be silenced, for they are undermining whole families by teaching objectionable doctrine for the base end of making money.

instead of studying Jewish myths and rules laid down by men who have discarded the Truth.

Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, masters of themselves, sound in faith, in love, and in stedfastness.

Tell the young men also to be masters of themselves at all points;

For the grace of God has appeared to save all men,

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

It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.

you may be sure a man like that is perverted; he is sinning and he knows it.