1 Timothy 3
1 This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie worke.
This is a faithful saying: If someone aspires to the office of overseer, 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, therefore, must be beyond criticism, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, good at teaching;
3 Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,
not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;
4 One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.
one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
5 For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?
(but if someone does not know how to manage his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
6 He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the deuill.
not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as 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.
Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into disgrace and the trap of the devil.
8 Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,
Deacons, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not devoted to a lot of wine, not greedy for money;
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.
Let them also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, if they are blamesless.
11 Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, 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 deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling 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 have served well as deacons gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Messiah Jesus.
14 These things write I vnto thee, trusting to come very shortly vnto thee.
These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
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 wait long, that you may know how people ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground 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.
Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: He was revealed in the flesh, justified by the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
