ving: (5)for it is sanctified by the
word of God and prayer. (6)If thou suggest these truths to the
brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up
in the words of faith and sound doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
(7)But profane and antiquated fables reject, but exercise thyself unto
godliness. (8)For bodily exercise is of little advantage, but godliness
is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life which now
is, and of that which is to come. (9)This is a faithful saying, and
deserving all acceptance. (10)For therefore do we labour and are
exposed to abuse, because we have hoped in the living God, who is the
Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful. (11)Announce and teach
these things. (12)Let no man despise thy youth; but be a pattern of the
faithful, in discourse; in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in
purity. (13)Till I come, apply to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
(14)Neglect not the gift which is in thee, which was given thee by
prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the presbytery. (15)Let these
things be thy care; be wholly devoted to them; that thy progress may be
evident to all men. (16)Take heed unto thyself, and to thy doctrine;
abide in them: for so doing thou shalt both save thyself, and those who
hear thee.

CHAP. V.

REBUKE not harshly an aged man, but admonish him as a father; the
younger men as brethren; (2)the aged women as mothers; the younger as
sisters, with all purity. (3)Honour the widows, that are widows indeed.
(4)But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn as
their first duty to shew their piety towards their own family, and make
a grateful return to their progenitors: for this is becoming and
acceptable before God. (5)But she who is a widow indeed, and abandoned
to solitude, hopeth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers
night and day. (6)But she who lives voluptuously is dead, though she
liveth. (7)And these things inculcate, that they may be blameless.
(8)But if any man provide not for his own relations, and especially for
those more immediately of his own family, he hath denied the faith, and
is worse than an infidel.

(9)Let no widow be put on the list under sixty years of age, who hath
been the wife of one husband, (10)bringing attestation of her good
works; that she hath well educated her children, that she hath been
hospitable to strangers, that she hath washed the saints feet, that she
h