For this purpose I left thee behind me at Crete, that thou mightest direct the regulations which remained to be executed, and that thou shouldest appoint presbyters in every city, as I charged thee to do:

PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

IT is a true saying, If a man seeks the office of a bishop, he desireth a laudable employment.

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Who then is the faithful and provident servant, whom his Lord hath appointed over his household, to give them meat in the proper time?

And the Lord said, Who indeed is a faithful steward, and prudent, whom the lord will place over his household, to give them their proportion of provision at the proper season?

LET a man so account of us, as the under servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Let every one, according as he hath received a gift, minister it to others, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Not selfwilled

especially such as walk after the flesh in the eager pursuit of defilement, and despise government. Daring, self-sufficient, they tremble not at dignities, railing against them.

Not given to wine

That the elder women also be sacredly becoming in their behaviour, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of propriety;

And be not drunk with wine, in which there is sottishness, but be filled with the Spirit;

not addicted to wine, not using hard words or blows, not greedy of base gain; but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

Not given to filthy

not addicted to wine, not using hard words or blows, not greedy of base gain; but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

feed the flock of God which is among you, exercising your pastoral office not of necessity, but of choice, not for base gain, but with alacrity of mind;

General references

confine thyself no longer to water-drinking; but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent indispositions.