to chuse such as are without reproach, married to but one wife, whose children are obedient, not accused of debauchery, nor unruly.

and such as cleaveth unto the true word of doctrine, that he may be able to exhort with wholesome learning, and to improve them that say against it.

They must be silenced, for such men upset whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach, for the sake of dishonest gain.

Such testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply that they may be healthy in the faith

Do you, however, speak of such subjects as properly have a place in sound Christian teaching.

And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things,

let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.

to stop resisting them and stealing from them, but to show such perfect fidelity as to adorn, in everything they do, the teaching of God our Saviour.

This saying is trustworthy. On this I want you to firmly insist; that those who have faith in God must be careful to maintain honest occupations. Such counsels are good and profitable for men.

reject therefore such an heretical man, after the first and second admonition; knowing that such a one is perverted,

for you may be sure that such a man is crooked and sinful, even self-condemned.

Our people must really learn to profess honest occupations, so as to be able to meet such special occasions; they must not be idle.