1 Timothy 3:1-10 ▼

1 The word [is] steadfast: If anyone longs for overseership, he desires a right work;

2 it is required, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, a husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, respectable, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

3 not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

4 leading his own house well, having children in subjection with all dignity,

5 (and if anyone has not known [how] to lead his own house, how will he take care of an assembly of God?)

6 not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the Devil;

7 and it is required of him also to have a good testimony from those outside, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the Devil.

8 Servants, in like manner, dignified, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to shameful gain,

9 having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,

10 and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.