Passage cross-references.

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. …

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. …

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.