that ye may be faultless, and pure, and the sons of God; without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and a perverse nation, among which see that ye shine as lights in the world,

The husband

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with giving thanks, of them which believe, and know the truth.

Let no widow be chosen under sixty years old, and such a one as was the wife of one man,

We are partakers of Christ, if we keep sure unto the end the beginning of the first substance,

Vigilant

For his watchmen are all blind, they have altogether no understanding. They are all dumb dogs, no being able to bark; they are sleepery, sluggish, and lie snorting.

The end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore discreet, and sober, that ye may be apt to prayers.

Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Given

Distribute unto the necessity of the saints, and diligently to harbour.

but harborous, one that loveth goodness, sober minded, righteous, holy, temperate,

Be not forgetful to lodge strangers. For thereby have divers received angels into their houses unawares.

Be ye harborous, one to another, and that without grudging.

Apt

But the servant of the Lord must not strive: but must be peaceable unto all men, and apt to teach,

General references

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their children well, and their own households.