For there are many, especially among the Jews, who are obstinate, vain talkers and deceivers;

one of their own prophets said, "the Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies."

but to lectures on virtue, that they may teach the young women prudence, to love their husbands,

to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, good oeconimists, beneficent, submissive to their husbands,

Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters, to be

Admonish them to be subject to princes and to magistrates, to obey their orders, and to exert their virtue and loyalty upon all occasions.

thro' Jesus Christ our saviour:

When I shall send you Artemas, or Tychicus, endeavour to meet me at Nicopolis: for I have determined to winter there.

dispatch Zenas the lawyer, and Apollos, and take care that nothing be wanting to their journey.

Let our brethren too learn some honest profession to supply their occasions, that they may not be destitute of an income.