Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,

who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.