1 Timothy 3
1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
Trustworthy [is] the saying: If anyone overseership aspires to, of good a work he is desirous.
2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
It behooves therefore the overseer above reproach to be, of one wife [the] husband, sober, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
not given to wine, not a striker (not greedy of base gain *K*) but gentle, peaceable, not loving money,
4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
[his] own house well managing, children having in submission with all dignity.
5 (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
if but one his [own] household to manage not knows, how [the] church of God will he care for?
6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
not a novice, that not having been puffed up into [the] judgment he may fall of the devil.
7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
It behooves now (him *k*) also a testimony good to have from those outside, so that not into reproach he may fall and [the] snare of the devil.
8 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
Deacons likewise [must be] dignified, not double-tongued, not to wine much being given, not greedy of dishonest gain,
9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
holding to the mystery of the faith with clear a conscience.
10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.
Also these now they should be tested first, then they should serve blameless being.
11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
Women likewise [must be] dignified, not slanderers, (clear-minded, *N(k)O*) faithful in all things.
12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Deacons should be of one wife husbands, [their] children well managing and [their] own households.
13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Those for well having served a standing for themselves good acquire and great confidence in [the] faith that [is] in Christ Jesus.
14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly,
These things to you I am writing hoping to come to you (with *no*) (speed; *N(k)O*)
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.
if however I shall delay, so that you may know how it behooves [one] in [the] household of God to conduct oneself, which is [the] church of God [the] living, [the] pillar and base of the truth.
16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
And confessedly great is the of godliness mystery: (Who *N(K)O*) was revealed in [the] flesh, was justified in [the] Spirit, beheld by angels, was proclaimed among [the] nations, was believed on in [the] world, was taken up in glory.
