Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.

For those who serve well will acquire to themselves a good standing, and much boldness in the faith in Christ Jesus.

being well-attested by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has helped those who are oppressed, if she has devoted herself to every good work.

ruling well his own house, having his children in subjection with all dignity,??5 but if any one knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God???6 not a novice, lest being inflated with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith:

Now an overseer must be blameless and beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

being antecedently a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter: but I obtained mercy, because I did it in unbelief being ignorant;

not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil.

being guilty, because they have cast off their first faith.

And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge against them.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;

Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,