⁸ Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

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

³ The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

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

³ Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

³ Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

⁴ But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to 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 Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:

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

² They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

⁹ Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

² Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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;

¹² Let the deacons be the 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 priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

² The tongue deviseth mischiefs; 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.