1 Timothy 3
1 This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie worke.
The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.
2 A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,
The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;
3 Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,
not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,
4 One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.
conducting his own house well, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;
5 For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?
(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)
6 He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the deuill.
not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into [the] fault of the devil.
7 He must also be well reported of, euen of them which are without, lest he fall into rebuke, and the snare of the deuill.
But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and [the] snare of the devil.
8 Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,
Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,
9 Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.
holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
10 And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.
And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge [against them].
11 Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
[The] women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
12 Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
Let [the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting [their] children and their own houses well:
13 For they that haue ministred well, get them selues a good degree, and great libertie in the faith, which is in Christ Iesus.
for those who shall have ministered well obtain for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in faith which [is] in Christ Jesus.
14 These things write I vnto thee, trusting to come very shortly vnto thee.
These things I write to thee, hoping to come to thee more quickly;
15 But if I tary long, that thou maist yet know, how thou oughtest to behaue thy self in ye house of God, which is the Church of the liuing God, the pillar and ground of trueth.
but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God's house, which is [the] assembly of [the] living God, [the] pillar and base of the truth.
16 And without controuersie, great is the mysterie of godlinesse, which is, God is manifested in the flesh, iustified in the Spirit, seene of Angels, preached vnto the Gentiles, beleeued on in the world, and receiued vp in glorie.
And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in [the] Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among [the] nations, has been believed on in [the] world, has been received up in glory.
