12. Let the ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting their children and their own houses well:
13. for those who shall have ministered well obtain for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in faith which is in Christ Jesus.
14. These things I write to thee, hoping to come to thee more quickly;
15. but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God's house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.
16. And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in the Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among the nations, has been believed on in the world, has been received up in glory.