1 Timothy 3

¹ Faithful is the saying: "If anyone is craving the supervision, he is desiring an ideal work." ² The supervisor, then, must be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, sober, sane, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach, ³ no toper, not quarrelsome, but lenient, pacific, not fond of money, ⁴ controlling his own household ideally, having his children in subjection with all gravity - ⁵ now if anyone is not aware how to control his own household, how will he care for the ecclesia of God? - ⁶ no novice, lest, being conceited, he should be falling into the judgment of the Adversary. ⁷ Yet he must have an ideal testimony also from those outside, that he should not be falling into the reproach and trap of the Adversary. ⁸ Servants, similarly, are to be grave, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not avaricious, ⁹ having the secret of the faith in a clear conscience. ¹⁰ Now let these also first be tested: thereafter let them be serving, being unimpeachable. ¹¹ The wives, similarly, are to be grave, not adversaries, sober, faithful in all things. ¹² Let servants be the husbands of one wife, controlling children and their own households ideally, ¹³ for those who serve ideally are procuring for themselves an ideal rank and much boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ These things I am writing to you, though expecting to come to you more quickly, ¹⁵ yet, if I should be tardy, that you may be perceiving how one must behave in God's house, which is the ecclesia of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth. ¹⁶ And avowedly great is the secret of devoutness, which was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by messengers, heralded among the nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.