1 Timothy 3:8-15 The deacons also in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not addicting themselves to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Haweis⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁸ The deacons also in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not addicting themselves to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; ⁹ holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience. ¹⁰ And let these also be first proved, and if found blameless, then let them enter on the deacon's office. ¹¹ Their wives in like manner must be grave women, not addicted to scandal, sober, faithful in all things. ¹² Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ordering well their children and their own families. ¹³ For they who discharge the office of a deacon with propriety, acquire to themselves a respectable station [in the church], and great boldness in the faith which is in Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ These things I write to thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: ¹⁵ but should I be delayed, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and the pedestal of truth.