if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of insubordination.

For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,

whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.

not attending to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who subvert the truth.

that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming holiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,

sober, pure, fond of home, kind, subject to their husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

sound argument not to be condemned, that the adversary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of us.

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

not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of our Saviour God in all things.

not by works of righteousness which we did but according to his mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

and let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary purposes, that they may not be unfruitful.