wherefore, brethren, chuse out of your number seven persons of good reputation, full of the holy spirit and wisdom, who may have the management of this affair:

the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the christians that are at Philippi, to the bishops, and to the deacons.

Be

obliging his children to behave with decorum.

Double-tongued

their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

from the same mouth shall blessing and cursing proceed? this ought not to be practis'd, my brethren;

Not given

not given to wine or violence, but of a gentle temper, averse to contention and avarice: a master of economy,