Read 1 Timothy 3

World English Bible · 16 verses

1. ¹ This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org