American Standard Version of 1901
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Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:
The {Or, overseer}bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge;
These things also command, that they may be without reproach.
And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the {Or, presbyters}elders of the church.
Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you {Or, overseers}bishops, to feed the church of {Some ancient authorities, including the two oldest manuscripts read God.}the Lord which he {Greek: acquired.}purchased with his own blood.
one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every {Greek: good pleasure of goodness. Compare Romans 10:1.}desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power;
Let as many as are {Greek: bondservants.}servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.
The husbandman that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.
For the scripture saith, {Deuteronomy 25:4.}Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.
but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;
But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found {Or, void}vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to every one that helpeth in the work and laboreth.