¹¹ Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

³ The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

² To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

³ Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

⁴ Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

¹⁸ He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

⁵ But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.