1 Timothy 3

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        1 Timothy 3
      
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        <b>1.  This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good 
        work.</b>
      
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         2.  A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good 
        behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
      
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         3.  Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a 
        brawler, not covetous;
      
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         4.  One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all 
        gravity;
      
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         5.  (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the 
        church of God?)
      
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         6.  Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the 
        devil.
      
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         7.  Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into 
        reproach and the snare of the devil.
      
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         8.  Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not 
        greedy of filthy lucre;
      
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         9.  Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
      
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         10.  And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being 
        found blameless.
      
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         11.  Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
      
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         12.  Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own 
        houses well.
      
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         13.  For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good 
        degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
      
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         14.  These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:
      
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         15.  But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in 
        the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the 
        truth.
      
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        <b>16.  And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the 
        flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in 
        the world, received up into glory.</b>
      
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