KJ3 Literal Translation
1 Timothy 3
2 How bishops, deacons, and their wives should be qualified. 15 Of the church, and the blessed truth therein taught.
1Faithful is the Word: If anyone reaches out to overseership, he desires a good work.
2Therefore it is right for the overseer to be blameless, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching;
3not given to wine, not a quarreler, not loving silver, but gentle, not contentious, not eager for ill gain;
4ruling his own house well, having children in subjection with all honor.
5But if anyone does not know how to rule his own house, how will he care for an assembly of God?
6He should not be a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the devil’s judgment.
7And it is right for him to also have a good witness from the ones outside, that he not fall into reproach and into a snare of the devil.
8Likewise, deacons are to be honorable, not double-tongued, not being given to much wine, not eager for ill gain,
9having the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.
10And also let these be tested first, then let them serve, being without reproach.
11Likewise, their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
12Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their own houses and children well.
13For the ones having served well as a deacon acquire a good standing for themselves and much boldness in faith, the ones in Christ Jesus.
14I write these things to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
15but if I delay, that you may know how to conduct oneself in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
16And, confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in flesh, was justified in Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.
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