1 Timothy 3
1 Trustworthy [is] the saying: If anyone overseership aspires to, of good a work he is desirous.
This is a faithful saying: If someone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a good work.
2 It behooves therefore the overseer above reproach to be, of one wife [the] husband, sober, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
The overseer, therefore, must be beyond criticism, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, good at teaching;
3 not given to wine, not a striker (not greedy of base gain *K*) but gentle, peaceable, not loving money,
not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;
4 [his] own house well managing, children having in submission with all dignity.
one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
5 if but one his [own] household to manage not knows, how [the] church of God will he care for?
(but if someone does not know how to manage his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
6 not a novice, that not having been puffed up into [the] judgment he may fall of the devil.
not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
7 It behooves now (him *k*) also a testimony good to have from those outside, so that not into reproach he may fall and [the] snare of the devil.
Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into disgrace and the trap of the devil.
8 Deacons likewise [must be] dignified, not double-tongued, not to wine much being given, not greedy of dishonest gain,
Deacons, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not devoted to a lot of wine, not greedy for money;
9 holding to the mystery of the faith with clear a conscience.
holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
10 Also these now they should be tested first, then they should serve blameless being.
Let them also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, if they are blamesless.
11 Women likewise [must be] dignified, not slanderers, (clear-minded, *N(k)O*) faithful in all things.
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
12 Deacons should be of one wife husbands, [their] children well managing and [their] own households.
Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
13 Those for well having served a standing for themselves good acquire and great confidence in [the] faith that [is] in Christ Jesus.
For those who have served well as deacons gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
14 These things to you I am writing hoping to come to you (with *no*) (speed; *N(k)O*)
These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
15 if however I shall delay, so that you may know how it behooves [one] in [the] household of God to conduct oneself, which is [the] church of God [the] living, [the] pillar and base of the truth.
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 confessedly great is the of godliness mystery: (Who *N(K)O*) was revealed in [the] flesh, was justified in [the] Spirit, beheld by angels, was proclaimed among [the] nations, was believed on in [the] world, was taken up in glory.
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.
