1 Timothy 3 — WEBBE

3Verse 1This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer⁺desires a good work.^{Verse 2}The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;^{Verse 3}not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;^{Verse 4}one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;^{Verse 5}(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)^{Verse 6}not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.^{Verse 7}Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.^{Verse 8}Servants,⁺in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,^{Verse 9}holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.^{Verse 10}Let them also first be tested; then let them serve⁺if they are blameless.^{Verse 11}Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.^{Verse 12}Let servants⁺be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.^{Verse 13}For those who have served well⁺gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.^{Verse 14}These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly,^{Verse 15}but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.^{Verse 16}Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great:God⁺was revealed in the flesh,
justified in the spirit,
seen by angels,
preached amongst the nations,
believed on in the world,
and received up in glory.