¹⁰ And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.

²² Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

¹ Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

² And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables.

⁸ who shall also confirm you unto the end, `that ye be' unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

² The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

⁶ not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

¹³ For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

⁶ if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

⁷ For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

¹ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

²² yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him: