⁹ Keep open house for all with a glad heart;

² Take care to keep open house: because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it.

¹⁴ Do all things without protests and arguments;

¹³ Giving to the needs of the saints, ready to take people into your houses.

⁸ But opening his house freely to guests; a lover of what is good, serious-minded, upright, holy, self-controlled;

² The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

⁹ Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.

¹⁶ But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.

¹⁴ But without your approval I would do nothing; so that your good works might not be forced, but done freely from your heart.

⁷ Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.

²³ Gaius, with whom I am living, whose house is open to all the church, sends his love, so does Erastus, the manager of the accounts of the town, and Quartus, the brother.