For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;
For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.
but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;