12. Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
13. Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
14. Be not negligent of the gift that is in thee, which has been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the elderhood.
15. Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all.
16. Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee.