Timothy (The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to )

Faithful [is] the Word: If anyone reaches out to overseership, he desires a good work.

Then it behooves the overseer to be blameless, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching;

not a drinker, not a contentious one, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money;

ruling his own house well, having children in subjection with all respect.

But if anyone does not know to rule [his] own house, how will he care for a church of God?

[He should] not [be] a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the Devil's judgment.

But he must also have a good witness from those outside, that he not fall into reproach and [into] a snare of the Devil.

Likewise, deacons [to be] reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,

having the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.

And also let these be tested first, then let them serve, being without reproach.

Likewise, [their] wives [to be] reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] own households and children well.

For those having served well gain a good grade for themselves and much boldness in faith, those in Christ Jesus.

I write these things to you, hoping to come to you shortly.

But if I delay, that you may know how to behave in the house of God, which is [the] church of the living God, [the] pillar and foundation of the truth.

And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in flesh, was justified in Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among nations, was believed on in [the] world, was taken up in glory.