1Ti 3 | ABEn | STEP | Trustworthy is the word. If any [ 2 overseership 1 reaches for], [ 2 a good 3 work 1 he desires].

1 Timothy 3

CHAPTER 3 Qualifications for Overseership

1 Trustworthy is the word. If any [²overseership ¹reaches for], [²a good ³work ¹he desires]. 2 It is necessary then the overseer to be unassailable, [²of one ³wife ¹a husband], sober, discreet, composed, hospitable, qualified for teaching; 3 not intemperate in the use of wine, not a brawler, not profiting through vice; but lenient, not quarrelsome, not loving money, 4 [⁴his own ⁵house ²well ¹standing ³over], [²children ¹having] in submission with all seriousness; 5 (and if any [³his own ⁴house ²how to stand over ¹knows not], how [²the assembly ³of God ¹shall he care for]?) 6 Not a novice, that not being deluded [²in ³judgment ¹he should fall] of the devil. 7 But it is necessary for him also [³witness ²a good ¹to have] from the ones outside, that [²not ⁴into ⁵scorning ¹he should ³fall], and the snare of the devil.

Qualifications of Servanthood

8 Servants likewise be serious, not double-talking, not [³wine ²to much ¹attentive], not profiting through vice, 9 having the mystery of the belief with a clean conscience. 10 And these also let them be approved first, then let them serve being without reproach! 11 Wives likewise be serious, not slanderers, sober, trustworthy in all things. 12 Servants be [²of one ³wife ¹husbands]! [²children ³well ¹standing over] and their own houses. 13 For the ones [²well ¹having served ⁵rank ⁶for themselves ⁴a good ³procure], and much confidence in belief, in the one in Christ Jesus. 14 These things to you I write hoping to come to you more quickly. 15 But if I should be slowed, that you should know how it is necessary [²in ³the house ⁴of God ¹to behave], which is the assembly of the living God, column and base of the truth. 16 And confessedly great is the [²of the ³piety ¹mystery]; God made manifest in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory.