They would like to be teachers of law although they do not understand the words they use or the matters they insist upon.

with faith and a good conscience. By ignoring their consciences, some people have destroyed their faith like a wrecked ship.

like Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I turned over to Satan, to be taught not to blaspheme.

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Do not sharply reprimand an older man, but appeal to him as [you would to] a father, to younger men as brothers,

to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters, in all purity [being careful to maintain appropriate relationships].

In like manner also there are good works that are evident; and such as are otherwise cannot be hid.