1 Timothy Chapter 3 Back Next{3:1} This is a
faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an
overseer, he desires a good work.
{3:2} The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
{3:3} not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
{3:4} one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
{3:5} (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)
{3:6} not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the
devil.
{3:7} Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
{3:8}
Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;
{3:9} holding the mystery of the faith in a pure
conscience.
{3:10} Let them also first be tested; then let them
serve if they are blameless.
{3:11} Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
{3:12} Let
servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
{3:13} For those who have
served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in
Christ Jesus.
{3:14} These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
{3:15} 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.
{3:16} 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.
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