1 Timothy 3 Faithful is the saying, "If anyone desires the office of bishop, he covets a noble work."

Worrell⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Faithful is the saying, "If anyone desires the office of bishop, he covets a noble work." ² It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach, ³ not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money, ⁴ presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity ⁵ (but, if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of an assembly of God?); ⁶ not a novice; lest, being puffed up, he fall into condemnation of the Devil. ⁷ And it is needful also that he have an honorable testimony from those without, lest he fall into reproach and a snare of the Devil. ⁸ It is needful that deacons, in like manner, be grave, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy of base gain; ⁹ holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. ¹⁰ But let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, being without reproach. ¹¹ It is needful that their wives, in like manner, be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. ¹² Let deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over their own children and their own houses. ¹³ For those serving well as deacons acquire for themselves a noble standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; ¹⁵ but, if I delay, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in a house of God, which, indeed, is an assembly of the living God, a pillar and basis of the truth, ¹⁶ And, confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifested in flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.