Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,