31This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.+2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;+3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;+4one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;+5(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)+6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.+7Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.+
8Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;+9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.+10Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.+11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.+12Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.+13For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.+
The Mystery of Godliness
14These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;+15but 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.+16Without 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.+Footnotes (6)
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