1 Timothy 3
Book: 1 Timothy
QUALIFICATIONS FOR OVERSEERS
2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
5 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
7 Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR DEACONS
8 Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
13 For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS DESCRIBED
15 but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.