| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | King James Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. |
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