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

¹² Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

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

³ not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

⁴ one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

⁵ (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

⁶ not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

⁷ Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

¹⁰ For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

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;

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.

¹⁴ We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

¹⁸ Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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.

¹⁵ Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

⁷ Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; But he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

¹² In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.

¹³ For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.

²⁹ Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?

³⁰ Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

²² Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting.

¹¹ Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.

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.

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.

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."