Likewise let the deacons be blameless before his righteousness, as deacons of God and Christ and not of men: not slanderers, not double-tongued, not lovers of money, temperate in all things, compassionate, diligent, walking according to the truth of the Lord, who became the servant of all. If we please him in this present age, we shall also receive the age to come, just as he promised us that he would raise us from the dead; and if we conduct ourselves worthily of him, we shall also reign with him—if indeed we believe.
Likewise also let the younger men be blameless in all things, taking thought above all for purity and bridling themselves from every evil. For it is good to be cut off from the lusts that are in the world, since every lust wars against the spirit, and neither fornicators nor the effeminate nor abusers of themselves with men shall inherit the kingdom of God, nor those who do unseemly things. Therefore one must keep away from all these things, being subject to the elders and deacons as to God and Christ; and the virgins must walk in a blameless and pure conscience.