that he himself might make her appear illustrious to his own eye, a church without spot, or any thing like a defect; so as to be holy and irreprehensible.

discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

A bishop then must be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, temperate, sagacious, respectable, hospitable, well qualified for teaching;

by the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreprehensible in his presence:

And these things proclaim, that they might be irreprehensible.

For thee to keep the command spotless, irreprehensible, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ: