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

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

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

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

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;

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.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

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

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

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

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

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

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

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

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