sharing in the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.

Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, the brother.

It is necessary, therefore, for a bishop to be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful at teaching;

but hospitable, loving good, prudent, just, holy, temperate,

Do not forget hospitality, for through this some have unwittingly entertained angels.

But do not forget the doing of good and generosity, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Let each [one give] just as he decides in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Do all things without grumbling and disputing,

But I wished to do nothing without your consent, in order that your good might not be by necessity, but by [being] voluntary.

Do not murmur against one another, brothers, lest you be judged. Behold, the Judge stands before the doors!