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

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

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

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.