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

²⁴ And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,

¹³ communicating to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.

⁹ using hospitality one to another without murmuring:

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;

⁸ but given to hospitality, as lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

⁹ holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.

⁹ Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, `having been' the wife of one man,

² Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

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

¹¹ Women in like manner `must be' grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

⁸ Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

¹⁴ for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:

² that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

¹⁵ that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

⁷ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

³ forbidding to marry, `and commanding' to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.