if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain.

not turning their minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.

that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us:

bondmen to be subject to their own masters, to make themselves acceptable in everything; not gainsaying;

not robbing their masters, but shewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the teaching which is of our Saviour God in all things.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be mild, shewing all meekness towards all men.

not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

and let ours also learn to apply themselves to good works for necessary wants, that they may not be unfruitful.