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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.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;
not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
(for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);
for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation 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.
Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.
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,
They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, being found blameless.
And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.
Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.
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.
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.
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;
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,
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.