Because an overseer is God's servant manager, he must be blameless. He must not be arrogant or irritable. He must not drink too much, be a violent person, or make money in shameful ways.

They must be silenced, because they are the kind of people who ruin whole families by teaching what they should not teach in order to make money in a shameful way.

Everything is clean to those who are clean, but nothing is clean to those who are corrupt and unbelieving. Indeed, their very way of thinking and their consciences have been corrupted.

Aged women, in the same way, in deportment, as becometh sacred persons, not given to intrigue, nor yet, to much wine, enslaved, teachers of virtue, -

In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

The younger men, in the same way, exhort thou to be sober-minded:

In every way set them an example of good conduct yourself. Teach with sincerity and seriousness,

Urge bond-servants to be subject to their own masters in everything, to be pleasing and not talk back,

or steal from them. Instead, they are to show complete and perfect loyalty, so that in every way they may make the teaching about God our Savior more attractive.

training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,

Here is another way that our people can learn to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful.