1 Timothy 3

¹The word [supplied: is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.
²The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;
³not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,
⁴conducting his own house well, having [supplied: his] children in subjection with all gravity;
⁵(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)
⁶not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into [supplied: the] fault of the devil.
⁷But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and [supplied: the] snare of the devil.
⁸Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,
⁹holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
¹⁰And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge [supplied: against them].
¹¹[supplied: The] women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
¹²Let [supplied: the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting [supplied: their] children and their own houses well:
¹³for those who shall have ministered well obtain for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in faith which [supplied: is] in Christ Jesus.
¹⁴These things I write to thee, hoping to come to thee more quickly;
¹⁵but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God's house, which is [supplied: the] assembly of [supplied: the] living God, [supplied: the] pillar and base of the truth.
¹⁶And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in [supplied: the] Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among [supplied: the] nations, has been believed on in [supplied: the] world, has been received up in glory.

Words in italics were supplied by the translators.

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