² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

²⁴ And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

¹³ Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

⁹ Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

⁶ If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

⁷ For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

⁸ But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

⁹ Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

⁹ Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.

² Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

¹⁰ And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

¹¹ Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

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

¹⁴ For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

² That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

¹⁵ That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine 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 sober, and watch unto prayer.

³ Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.