⁴⁰ Let all things be done in the right and ordered way.

⁵ For though I am not present in the flesh, still I am with you in the spirit, seeing with joy your order, and your unchanging faith in Christ.

⁵ I did not take you with me when I went away from Crete, so that you might do what was necessary to put things in order there, placing men in authority over the churches in every town, as I said to you;

³⁴ If any man is in need of food, let him take his meal in his house; so that you may not come together to your damage. And the rest I will put in order when I come.

²⁶ What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.

²⁷ If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:

²⁸ But if there is no one to give the sense, let him keep quiet in the church; and let his words be to himself and to God.

²⁹ And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.

³⁰ But if a revelation is given to another who is seated near, let the first be quiet.

³¹ For you may all be prophets in turn so that all may get knowledge and comfort;

³² And the spirits of the prophets are controlled by the prophets;

³³ For God is not a God whose ways are without order, but a God of peace; as in all the churches of the saints.

¹³ With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.