As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers,

who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.