1 Timothy 3

3:1Trustworthy is the word. If any reaches for overseership, he desires a good work.

3:2It is necessary then the overseer to be unassailable, a husband of one wife, sober, discreet, composed, hospitable, qualified for teaching;

3:3not intemperate in the use of wine, not a brawler, not profiting through vice; but lenient, not quarrelsome, not loving money,

3:4standing well over his own house, having children in submission with all seriousness;

3:5(and if any knows not how to stand over his own house, how shall he care for the assembly of God?)

3:6Not a novice, that not being deluded he should fall in judgment of the devil.

3:7But it is necessary for him also to have a good witness from the ones outside, that he should not fall into scorning, and the snare of the devil.

3:8Servants likewise be serious, not double-talking, not attentive to much wine, not profiting through vice,

3:9having the mystery of the belief with a clean conscience.

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

3:11Wives likewise be serious, not slanderers, sober, trustworthy in all things.

3:12Servants be husbands of one wife! standing over children well and their own houses.

3:13For the ones having served well procure a good rank for themselves, and much confidence in belief, in the one in Christ Jesus.

3:14These things to you I write hoping to come to you more quickly.

3:15But if I should be slowed, that you should know how it is necessary to behave in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, column and base of the truth.

3:16And confessedly great is the mystery of the piety; God made manifest in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.