LITV - I Timothy - 3

3:1  Faithful is the Word: If anyone reaches out to overseership, he desires a good work.

3:2  Then it behooves the overseer to be blameless, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching;

3:3  not a drinker, not a contentious one, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money;

3:4  ruling his own house well, having children in subjection with all respect.

3:5  But if anyone does not know to rule his own house, how will he care for a church of God?

3:6  He should not be a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the Devil's judgment.

3:7  But he must also have a good witness from those outside, that he not fall into reproach and into a snare of the Devil.

3:8  Likewise, deacons to be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,

3:9  having the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.

3:10  And also let these be tested first, then let them serve, being without reproach.

3:11  Likewise, their wives to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

3:12  Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their own households and children well.

3:13  For those having served well gain a good grade for themselves and much boldness in faith, those in Christ Jesus.

3:14  I write these things to you, hoping to come to you shortly.

3:15  But if I delay, that you may know how to behave in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

3:16  And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in flesh, was justified in Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.