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

²⁴ The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,

¹³ contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

⁹ Be hospitable one to another without grumbling.

⁶ if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

⁷ For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

⁸ but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober-minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;

⁹ holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

⁹ Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

² Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

¹⁰ Let them also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, if they are blameless.

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

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

¹⁴ For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

² that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

¹⁵ that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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

⁷ But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

³ forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.