(Heb. 13:1-5): "Let brotherly love (among you) remain. Do not forget the love of strangers, for through it some, without knowing it, have shown hospitality to the Angels. Remember the prisoners, as if you were in chains with them, and those who suffer, as you yourselves are in the body. The marriage of all (let it be) honorable and the bed blameless; but fornicators and adulterers are judged by God. Have a disposition that does not love money, being content with what you have."

Canon 70: Of those who are entrusted with the preaching of the Gospel, when, whom and what they are to teach; how they need to correct themselves beforehand; what boldness one should have in preaching; how much to care for those entrusted to them; with what disposition and what labors to devote oneself predominantly; how to keep oneself clean from such defects that most often accompany them; to what extent to bring the taught; how to attract people who have a hostile disposition; how to approach those who, out of fear, refuse to listen; how to withdraw from those who do not accept them through lack of consciousness; how to ordain others or expel those who have been ordained; and that each of the Primates should consider himself responsible before those entrusted to him in everything that he does and says

Chapter 1. Those to whom the preaching of the Gospel has been entrusted, with supplication and prayer, must ordain irreproachable deacons and presbyters, who have earned the approval of their former life.

(Matt. 9:37-38): "Then saith unto His disciples, The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest that He will send laborers into His harvest."

(Luke 6:13-16): "When the day came, He called His disciples and chose twelve of them, whom He also called Apostles: Simon, whom He also called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James of Alpheus and Simon, who was called Zealot, Judas of Jacob and Judas Iscariot, who later became a traitor."

(Luke 10:1-2): "After these things the Lord chose the other seventy disciples, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place whither He Himself wanted to go, and said to them, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest that He will send laborers into His harvest."

(Acts 1:1-2): "The first book I wrote to you, Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day in which He ascended, having given commands by the Holy Spirit to the Apostles whom He had chosen."

(23-26): "And they appointed two: Joseph, who was called Barsabbas, who was called Justus, and Matthias; And they prayed and said, O Lord, Knower of the Hearts of all, show one of these two, whom Thou hast chosen to receive the lot of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas fell away to go to his own place. And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered among the eleven apostles."

(1 Tim. 3:1-10): "True is the saying: If anyone desires the episcopacy, he desires a good work.

He must also have a good testimony from those outside, so that he does not fall into the reproach and snare of the devil. Deacons must also be honest, not double-tongued, not addicted to wine, not greedy, keeping the sacrament of faith in a clear conscience. And such people must first be tested, then, if they are blameless, allowed to serve."

(Titus 1:5-9): "For this I have left you in Crete, that you may finish what you have not finished, and that you may appoint elders in all the cities, as I commanded you: if any man be blameless, the husband of one wife, he shall have faithful children, who are not reproached with debauchery or disobedience. For a bishop must be blameless, like God's steward, not impudent, not wrathful, not a drunkard, not a thief, not a covetous, but a lover of strangers, a lover of good, chaste, just, pious, temperate, holding fast to the true word, in accordance with the teaching, so that he may be strong and instruct in sound doctrine and rebuke those who resist."

Chapter 2. In ordinations, one should not be frivolous and approach them imprudently, for what does not deserve approval is not safe. And he who is caught in something must be discovered, so that he himself does not become an accomplice in sin, and so that others do not stumble, but, on the contrary, learn to fear.