and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.
who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;
in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,
for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that `is' in Christ Jesus.
it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,
not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;
Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;
Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;