Worsley - I Timothy - 3

3:1  It is certain, if any one is desirous of the episcopal office, he desireth a good work.

3:2  A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, sober, prudent, grave,

3:3  hospitable, able to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain, moderate, not quarrelsome,

3:4  not covetous, governing his own family well, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

3:5  (for if any one know not how to govern his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

3:6  not one newly converted, least being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

3:7  He ought also to have an honorable testimony from those that are without, least he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

3:8  The deacons should likewise be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain,

3:9  holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

3:10  (And let these also first be proved, then let them take the office of deacons, if they be found blameless.)

3:11  And their wives likewise grave, not slanderers, sober, and faithful in all things.

3:12  Let the deacons too be husbands of one wife only, governing their children and their own houses well.

3:13  For they, that discharge the office of a deacon well, gain to themselves a good degree of honor, and much freedom in promoting the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

3:14  These things I write unto thee, hoping to come to thee shortly.

3:15  But if I should be retarded, that thou mayst know how thou oughtest to behave in the house of God, the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

3:16  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, and received up into glory.