and the attention they bestow on mere fables and endless pedigrees, such as lead to controversy rather than to a true stewardship for God, which only exists where there is faith. And I make the same request now.

This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same;

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

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

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

If there be any that provideth not for his own, and namely for them of his household, the same denieth the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

And, at the same time, they learn also to be idle, going about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.

In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can't be hidden.