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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.
The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;
not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,
conducting his own house well, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;
one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence
(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)
(for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, 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.
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.
Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he 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,
Qualifications of Deacons
Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money,
Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money,
holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge [against them].
But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, being found blameless.
[The] women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Let [the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting [their] children and their own houses well:
Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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 good standing and great boldness in the faith which 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;
The Great Mystery
These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly;
These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly;
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.
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.