⁸ Deacons in like manner `must be' grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

¹ Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

³ that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

²³ Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

³ no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

³ Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

⁴ But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word.

⁵ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a proselyte of Antioch;

⁶ whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.

² They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

⁹ Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

² Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to `the will of' God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

¹⁰ out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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;

¹² Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling `their' children and their own houses well.

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

²¹ Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

² Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

¹⁹ Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.

⁹ For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.