nor attend to fables and endless genealogies, which occasion debates, rather than pious edification in the faith:

for kings and all who are in [positions of] high authority, so that we may live a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.

but with good deeds; for this is appropriate for women who profess to be pious.

not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means; but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,

but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God's house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

he is conceited and woefully ignorant [understanding nothing]. He has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, which produces envy, quarrels, verbal abuse, evil suspicions,