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Qualifications for Overseers
The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.
The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.
Overseers and Deacons
It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.
It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.
The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,
not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money.
conducting his own house well, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;
He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity
(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)
(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),
not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into [the] fault of the devil.
and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil.
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.
And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Qualifications for Deacons
Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,
Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,
Deacons likewise must be men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain,
holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
but holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge [against them].
These men must also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons if they are beyond reproach.
[The] women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.
Let [the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting [their] children and their own houses well:
Deacons must be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own households.
for those who shall have ministered well obtain for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in faith which [is] in Christ Jesus.
For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
The Mystery of Godliness
These things I write to thee, hoping to come to thee more quickly;
These things I write to thee, hoping to come to thee more quickly;
I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you before long;
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.
but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.
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.
By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness:
He who was revealed in the flesh,
Was vindicated in the Spirit,
Seen by angels,
Proclaimed among the nations,
Believed on in the world,
Taken up in glory.
He who was revealed in the flesh,
Was vindicated in the Spirit,
Seen by angels,
Proclaimed among the nations,
Believed on in the world,
Taken up in glory.