¹⁰ and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

²² Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;

¹ And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration,

² and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, `It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables;

⁸ who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

² it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

⁶ not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

¹³ for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that `is' in Christ Jesus.

⁶ if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

⁷ for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

¹ Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

²² in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,