⁸ Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

¹ Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;

³ aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

²³ no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

³ not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

³ look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,

⁴ and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.'

⁵ And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,

⁶ whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them `their' hands.

² Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

⁹ `Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not -- a statute age-during to your generations;

² feed the flock of God that `is' among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

¹⁰ out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

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;

¹² Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

¹³ A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips.

²¹ And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court.

² Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

¹⁹ Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

⁹ For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart `is' mischiefs, An open grave `is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.