¹¹ Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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

³ without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

² The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

⁶ so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.

⁷ For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken are drunken in the night.

⁸ But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

¹² And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

² Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

⁵ But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

² to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

⁸ Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

⁹ The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

¹⁰ I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"

⁵ There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

⁶ They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

¹³ "'He shall take a wife in her virginity.

¹⁴ A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.

¹⁵ He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.'"

³ He who doesn't slander with his tongue, Nor does evil to his friend, Nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

⁵ I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

¹⁸ He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

¹³ As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, So is a faithful messenger to those who send him; For he refreshes the soul of his masters.

⁴ Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

²² Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

¹ Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

⁷ "'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.