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

²⁴ and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

¹³ to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.

⁹ hospitable to one another, without murmuring;

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;

⁸ but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

⁹ holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

⁹ A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

² of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;

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

¹¹ Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

⁸ Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

¹⁴ for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

² aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

¹⁵ that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

⁶ and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

⁷ And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

³ forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

¹⁰ Blind `are' his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them `are' dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.