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

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

¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

¹¹ for he who is saying to him, `Hail,' hath fellowship with his evil works.

¹⁴ be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership;

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

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

⁴ And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,

² of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on also of hands, of rising again also of the dead, and of judgment age-during,

⁵ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

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;

² and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

⁶ For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands,

¹² let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

²⁶ wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I `am' clear from the blood of all,

⁶ and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken `his' garments, he said unto them, `Your blood `is' upon your head -- I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

³ then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent `them' away.

¹⁴ And the men take of their provision, and the mouth of Jehovah have not asked;