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

he is puffed up with pride and has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions,

Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,

by one who recognizes that laws were not made for good men, but for the lawless and disorderly, for irreligious and wicked people, for those who are irreverent and profane, for those who ill-treat their fathers or mothers, for murderers,