1 Timothy 3:8-16 ▼

8 Likewise must ye ministers be graue, not double tongued, not geuen to much wine, neither greedy of fylthy lucre:

9 Holdyng the misterie of the fayth in a pure conscience.

10 And let them first be proued, then let them minister, beyng blamelesse.

11 Euen so must their wyues be graue, not euyll speakers, sober, faythfull in all thynges.

12 Let the deacons be the husbandes of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.

13 For they that haue ministred well, get them selues a good degree, and great libertie in the fayth whiche is in Christe Iesus.

14 These thynges write I vnto thee, hopyng to come shortly vnto thee:

15 But yf I tary long, that thou mayest knowe howe thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in the house of God, whiche is the Church of the lyuyng God, the pyller and grounde of trueth.

16 And without doubt, great is that misterie of godlynesse: God was shewed in the flesshe, was iustified in the spirite, was seene among the angels, was preached vnto the gentiles, was beleued on in the worlde, and was receaued vp in glorie.