that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

The husband

who forbid to marry, [command] to abstain from meat, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and those who know the truth.

Let not a widow be enrolled under sixty years of age, a wife of one husband,

for we have been made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of the confidence firm to the end.

Vigilant

But the end of all things is at hand. Be sober therefore, and watch in prayers;

Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour;

Given

contribute to the necessity of saints, practise hospitality.

but a lover of hospitality, kind, sober, just, holy, self-denying,

Forget not hospitality; for by this some without knowing it have entertained angels.

Be hospitable one to another, without complaining;

Apt

and the servant of the Lord must not contend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

General references

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