3: 2 The 14overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
14Or, bishop Gk. επισκοπος, episcopos
3: 3 no heavy drinker, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
3: 4 one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
3: 5 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of a church of God?)
3: 6 not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into a condemnation of the devil.
3: 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.
3: 8 Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
3: 9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
3: 10 And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.
3: 11 15Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
15Or, Wives or, Their wives
3: 12 Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
3: 13 For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
3: 14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly;
3: 15 but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know 16how men ought to behave themselves in a house of God, which is a church of the living God, a pillar and ground of the truth.
16Or, how thou oughtest to behave thyself
3: 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; 17He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the 18nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
17So ℵ*C*A* 33. D* vg read Which 1739 81 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read God
18Or, Gentiles,
