1 Timothy 3

1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.⋮

2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;⋮

3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;⋮

4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;⋮

5 (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)⋮

6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.⋮

7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.⋮

8 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,⋮

9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.⋮

10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.⋮

11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.⋮

12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.⋮

13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.⋮

14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly,⋮

15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.⋮

16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.⋮