that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

The husband

forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

Vigilant

Blind are his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.

And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

Given

to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;

hospitable to one another, without murmuring;

Apt

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

General references

Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,