"A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;"
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His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
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.
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;
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;
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
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,
The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;
The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,