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But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, patient,
¶ If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
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.
¶ Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
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.
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine [shewing] uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
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;
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
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.
¶ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed [be] the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.
His watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and [yet] true;
¶ And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Ye [are] witnesses, and God [also], how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
¶ We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth in death.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
[But] to the saints that [are] in the earth, and [to] the excellent, in whom [is] all my delight.
¶ Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
¶ And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
¶ Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Then called he them in, and lodged [them]. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
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