Lay hands suddenly on no man neither be part taker of other men's sins: Keep thyself pure.
Then fasted they and prayed, and put their hands on them, and let them go.
When they said contrary and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said unto them: your blood upon your own heads. For henceforth I go unto the gentiles,
Wherefore I take you to record this same day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
which they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather rebuke them.
And let them first be proved, and then let them minister, if they be found faultless.
Yee and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, of honest behavior, honestly apparelled, harbourous, apt to teach,
He may not be a young man, lest he swell and fall into the judgment of the evil speaker.
Let no man despise thy youth: but be unto them that believe, an ensample, in word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith and in pureness.
Despise not the gift that is the thee, which was given thee thorow prophecy, and with laying on of the hands of a senior.
¶ Wherefore I warn thee that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee, by the putting on of my hands.
And what things thou hast heard of me, many bearing witness, the same deliver to faithful men, which are apt to teach other.
of baptism, of doctrine, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection from death, and of eternal judgement.
For he that biddeth him God speed, is part taker of his evil deeds.
¶ And I heard another voice from heaven say: come away from her my people, that ye be not part takers in her sins, that ye receive not of her plagues.