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| - | 1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. | + | #REDIRECT [[1 Timothy 3 King James Version 2016]] |
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| - | 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, able to teach;
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| - | 3 not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; | + | |
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| - | 4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence
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| - | 5 (because if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);
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| - | 6 not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
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| - | 7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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| - | 8 Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for shameful riches,
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| - | 9 holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.
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| - | 10 But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, being found blameless.
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| - | 11 Likewise, their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
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| - | 12 Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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| - | 13 Because those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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| - | 14 These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly;
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| - | 15 but if I am delayed, so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
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| - | 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.
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