who ought to be curb'd, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for sordid lucre.

the charge is true: wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they maybe sound in the faith;

they make a profession of knowing God; but in fact they deny him, being execrably incredulous, and utter strangers to all virtue.

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

entirely obsequious without grumbling. not to pilfer, but to show the strictest fidelity; that they may do honour to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.

This is a secure rule, and what I would have you constantly maintain, that they who have believed in God, should take care to be examples of virtue, for that is commendable and useful to mankind.

but avoid frivolous enquiries about genealogies, and vexatious disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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