And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all {men}, apt to teach, patient, {patient: or, forbearing}

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, {taken...: or, chosen}

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being {found} blameless.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. {sober: or, vigilant}

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; {harmless: or, sincere} {ye shine: or, shine ye}

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Forbidding to marry, {and commanding} to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

His watchmen {are} blind: they are all ignorant, they {are} all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. {sleeping: or, dreaming, or, talking in their sleep}

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all {men}, apt to teach, patient, {patient: or, forbearing}

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; {men: or, things}

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

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. {sober: or, vigilant}

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

Marriage {is} honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Or ministry, {let us wait} on {our} ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

This {is} a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do {it}, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

Even so {must their} wives {be} grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, {taken...: or, chosen}

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. {among: or, by}

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; {harmless: or, sincere} {ye shine: or, shine ye}

For whatsoever man {he be} that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. {put...: Heb. thrust forth} {that had...: Heb. from a priest}

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and {as} the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? {wife: or, woman}

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. {ground: or, stay}

Therefore let us not sleep, as {do} others; but let us watch and be sober.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being {found} blameless.

But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever {he be} of thy seed in their generations that hath {any} blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. {bread: or, food}

Now for a long season Israel {hath been} without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.