1Chapter 5 — The duties of deacons, youths, and virgins.
2Knowing, then, that "God is not mocked," we ought to walk worthy of His commandment and glory.
3In like manner should the deacons be blameless before the face of His righteousness, as being the servants of God and Christ, and not of men.
4They must not be slanderers, double-tongued, or lovers of money, but temperate in all things, compassionate, industrious, walking according to the truth of the Lord, who was the servant of all.
5If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him, "we shall also reign together with Him," provided only we believe.
6In like manner, let the young men also be blameless in all things, being especially careful to preserve purity, and keeping themselves in, as with a bridle, from every kind of evil.
7For it is well that they should be cut off from the lusts that are in the world, since "every lust warreth against the spirit;" and "neither fornicators, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God," nor those who do things inconsistent and unbecoming.
8Wherefore, it is needful to abstain from all these things, being subject to the presbyters and deacons, as unto God and Christ.
9The virgins also must walk in a blameless and pure conscience.