[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. [11] Women, in like manner, dignified, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things. [12] Servants—let them be husbands of one wife, leading the children well, and their own houses, [13] for those who ministered well acquire a good step to themselves, and much boldness in faith that [is] in Christ Jesus. [14] I write to you these things, hoping to come to you soon, [15] and if I delay, that you may know how it is required to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God—a pillar and foundation of the truth, [16] and confessedly, great is the secret of piety: who was revealed in flesh, declared righteous in [the] Spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!
