and be well spoken of for her kind actions. She should have brought up children, have shown hospitality to strangers, have washed the feet of her fellow Christians, have relieved those who were in distress, and devoted herself to every kind of good action.

But you should exclude the younger widows from the list; for, when they grow restive under the yoke of the Christ, they want to marry,

Now at the same time, they also learn to be idle as they go from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies [meddlers in things that do not concern them], talking about things they should not mention.

If a Christian woman has widowed relatives, she should help them, and let the church be free from the burden, so that it can help the widows who are really dependent.

Elders who do their duties well should be considered as deserving twice the salary they get especially those who keep on toiling in preaching and teaching.

For the Scripture says [Deut. 25:4], "You should not put a muzzle on the ox while it tramples over the grain." And [Luke 10:7], "The worker deserves his wages."

You should rebuke in front of everyone [in the church] those elders who continue to sin, so that the rest [of the congregation] will be afraid [of sinning].

In like manner also the good works [of some] are previously manifest; and it is not possible that what they have besides should be concealed.

All those people who are under the reins of slavery [i.e., in subjection to someone] should consider their own masters as deserving of full respect, so that God's name and [His] teaching will not be spoken against [i.e., by unbelievers].

Those who have believing masters are not to be disrespectful toward them because they are brothers [in Christ], but they should serve them even better, because those who benefit from their kindly service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these [duties and principles].

But if we have [enough] food and clothing, we will [i.e., should] be content with that.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

Therefore you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner. But be partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God,

You should hold on firmly to the pattern of sound teaching that you have heard from me, while [maintaining your] faith and love in [harmony with] Christ Jesus.

And the things that you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, you should pass on to trustworthy men who will be able to teach other people also.

The farmer who has done the work should be the first to get a share of the crop.

If we continue to endure, we shall also share his throne. If we should ever disown him, he, too, will disown us.

However, the solid foundation of God stands firm. [Note: This probably refers to the church. See I Tim. 3:15]. It is sealed with these words [i.e., certifying God's ownership and a commitment to Him]: "The Lord knows those who are His people," [See Num. 16:5], and "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord should stop practicing wickedness." [See Isa. 36:13].

and a Servant of the Lord should never quarrel. He ought, on the contrary, to be courteous to every one, a skillful teacher, and forbearing.

In meekness, bringing under discipline them that oppose themselves, lest at any time God should give them repentance unto a personal knowledge of truth,

And they should wake up to sobriety out of, the adversary's, snare, - though they have been taken alive by him for, that one's, will.

But you should know this: There will be terrible times in the last days [of the Christian age].

[These people] maintain an appearance of being godly, but they have denied its power; [you should] turn away from such people.

and by lending an assiduous ear to such lessons, render it impossible they should ever be acquainted with the truth.

But you should continue [to believe and practice] what you have learned and been convinced of, knowing those from whom you learned it. [Note: These persons would include Lois and Eunice (See 1:5), as well as Paul himself].

But you should be sober-minded about everything, [willing to] endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

You should beware of him, for he strongly opposed our message.

But the Lord stood with me, and gave me power, that through me the proclamation might be fully made, and all those of the nations should hear; and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

I left thee behind in Crete on account of this: That thou should set in order the things lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded thee,

namely, a man of unquestionable integrity, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of being immoral or rebellious.

On the contrary, he should be hospitable, eager for the right discreet, upright, a man of holy life and capable of self-restraint,

It is necessary to silence them; they overthrow whole households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly.

[And] this testimony is true. [So], for this reason you should rebuke them severely, so that they will be sound in the faith,

But you should speak those things which agree with sound teaching:

Older men should be sober-minded [See note at I Tim. 3:2], dignified [i.e., respectable], sensible, sound in the faith [or, "in their faith"], in their love and in their perseverance.

Older women, likewise, should be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine, teachers of what is good.

They should train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

In the same way, you should exhort the younger men to be sensible.

In everything [you do], you should show that you are a [proper] example of doing good deeds. In your teaching show integrity, dignity,

Slaves should be in subjection to their own masters in everything. They should try hard to please them, without talking back

disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.

You should teach these things and exhort and rebuke people with full authority. Do not let anyone look down on you. [See note on I Tim. 4:12].

to speak evil of no one, that they should be peaceable, gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

In order that, having been declared righteous by his favour, we should be made inheritors, according to hope, of life age-abiding.

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 you should avoid foolish arguments, and [pointless] discussions about ancestors, and quarrels and disputes about [observance of] the law of Moses, for they are unprofitable and useless.

Our people [i.e., the Christians there on Crete] also should learn to practice good deeds for meeting pressing needs, so that they can be productive [in the Lord's work].

in such sort that thy participation in the faith should become operative in the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in us towards Christ Jesus.

And so, though my union with Christ enables me, with all confidence, to dictate the course that you should adopt,

And thou should welcome him, that is, my bowels.

whom I should like to retain for myself, that he might serve me for you in the bonds of the gospel,

But, apart from thy mind, I wished to do, nothing, that, not as by necessity, thy goodness should be, but, by choice.

For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that you should receive him forever;

not as a slave, but in another quality, as a dear brother whom I particularly value, but much more should you, both as he is your servant, and as he is a christian.

And when again he should bring in the firstborn to the habitable globe, he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.

But which one of the angels did God ever say [this] about [Psa. 110:1], "You should sit at my right side until I put your enemies [in full subjection] beneath your feet"?

For this reason we must pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away.

For someone somewhere has solemnly said: "What is man that you should think of him, or the Son of Man that you should care for Him?

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

For it was fitting for God [that is, an act worthy of His divine nature] that He, for whose sake are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the author and founder of their salvation perfect through suffering [bringing to maturity the human experience necessary for Him to be perfectly equipped for His office as High Priest].

And so it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers, so that he might become a compassionate and faithful high priest, in all that relates to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Now Moses was faithful in all the house of God, yet only as a servant to bear witness to the message that should be spoken,

And Christ as a son over his house: whose house are we, if we should hold freedom of speech and the boast of hope firm to the end.

so I swear in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."

Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart, in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God:

In that it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, ye should not harden your hearts, as in the exasperation.

To whom did He take oath that they should not be admitted to His rest, if it was not to those who disobeyed Him?

Let us be afraid therefore, lest, a promise being left behind to enter into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short.

For we who believe [that is, we who personally trust and confidently rely on God] enter that rest [so we have His inner peace now because we are confident in our salvation, and assured of His power], just as He has said,

“As I swore [an oath] in My wrath,
They shall not enter My rest,”

[this He said] although His works were completed from the foundation of the world [waiting for all who would believe].

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

For if Joshua had given them the true rest, we should not afterwards hear God speaking of another still future day.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them.

Having therefore a great chief priest, passed to the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, we should hold firmly the assent.

We should therefore go with freedom of speech to the throne of grace, that we receive mercy, and find grace for timely assistance.

FOR, every high-priest taken from among men, is constituted on behalf of men for those services which relate to God, that he should offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

And because of this he should, as for the people, so also for himself, offer for sins.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

of teaching about washings (ritual purifications), the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. [These are all important matters in which you should have been proficient long ago.]

if they fall away, should be renewed again unto repentance: Forasmuch as they have, as concerning themselves, crucified the son of God afresh, making a mock of him.

But, should it be bringing forth thorns and briars, it is disapproved, and, unto cursing, nigh, - whose end is for burning.

For God is not unrighteous that he should forget your work and labour that proceedeth of love, which love showed in his name, which have ministered unto the saints, and yet minister.

But our great desire is that every one of you should be equally earnest to attain to a full conviction that our hope will be fulfilled, and that you should keep that hope to the end.

that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

Now if perfection [a perfect fellowship between God and the worshiper] had been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people were given the Law) what further need was there for another and different kind of priest to arise, one in the manner of Melchizedek, rather than one appointed to the order of Aaron?

and it is yet more abundantly evident, that there should arise another priest after the likeness of Melchisedec,

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

every high priest being establish'd to offer gifts and sacrifices: it was necessary that he likewise should make a peculiar offering,

For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

And they should not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from their little even to their great ones.

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;

since it was necessary that it should suffer often from the foundation of the world, but now once at the consummation of the world he has been manifested to destroy sins by the sacrifice of himself.

as then it is appointed that men should die but once, after which the judgment ensues;

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Then I said, 'Lo I come.' In the chiefest of the book it is written of me, that I should do thy will, o God."

But, this priest, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, which should serve for all time, 'took his seat at the right hand of God,'