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Qualifications for Overseers
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
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;
not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
conducting his own house well, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;
for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?
(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into [the] fault of the devil.
Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare 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.
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,
They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.
And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge [against them].
[The] women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.
Let [the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting [their] children and their own houses well:
For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
for those who shall have ministered well obtain for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in faith which [is] in Christ Jesus.
The Mystery of Godliness
I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that,
I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that,
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;
if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
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.