1 Timothy 3

¹The saying is trustworthy: if anyone aspires to oversight, he desires a good work.

²Therefore the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

³not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain, but gentle, peaceable, not a lover of money,

⁴managing his own household well, having children in submission with all dignity.

⁵But if anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

⁶not a recent convert, lest, being puffed up with conceit, he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

⁷Moreover he must also have a good testimony from those outside, so that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

⁸Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain,

⁹holding the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

¹⁰And these also must be tested first, then serve as deacons, if they are blameless.

¹¹Women likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, sober-minded, faithful in all things.

¹²Deacons must be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

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

¹⁴These things I write to you, hoping to come to you soon;

¹⁵but if I delay, so that you may know how one ought to conduct oneself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

¹⁶And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh, was vindicated in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.