1 Timothy 3:1-10 ▼

1 This is a true sayinge. Yf a ma covet ye office of a bysshope he desyreth a good worke.

2 Ye and a bisshope must be fautlesse the husband of one wyfe sober discrete honestly aparelled harberous apt to teache

3 not dronke no fighter not geve to filthy lucre: but gentle abhorrynge fightynge abhorrynge coveteousnes

4 and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly havynge chyldren vnder obedience with all honeste.

5 For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God.

6 He maye not be a yonge skoler lest he swell and faule into the iudgement of the evyll

7 speaker. He must also be well reported of amonge them which are with out forth lest he fall into rebuke and snare of the evyll speaker.

8 Lykwyse must the deacons be honest not double tonged not geve vnto moche drynkinge nether vnto filthy lucre:

9 but havynge the mistery of the fayth in pure consciece.

10 And let them fyrst be proved and then let them minister yf they be founde fautlesse.