Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.
You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your often infirmities.
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not so to be.
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;