if there be a man blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not under an accusation or debauchery, or disorderly conduct.

For there are many disorderly persons vainly talkative, and under a spirit of delusion, especially some of the circumcised;

One of them, a poet of their own nation, hath said, The Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, slothful gluttons.

All things indeed are clean to the clean: but to the defiled and to the unbelievers there is nothing clean; but their very mind and conscience are defiled.

That the elder women also be sacredly becoming in their behaviour, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of propriety;

that they instruct the young women to be discreet, to love their husbands, to love their children,

to be sober, domestic, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not ill reported of.

Let servants be subject to their own masters, in all things to be agreeable to them; not contradicting;

not embezzling their property, but demonstrating all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, hasten to come to me unto Nicopolis: for there I have determined to pass the winter.