1This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks…
2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the…
3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for…
4one who rules his own house well, having…
5(for how could someone who doesn’t know how…
6not a new convert, lest being puffed up…
7Moreover he must have good testimony from those…
8Servants, in the same way, must be reverent,…
9holding the mystery of the faith in a…
10Let them also first be tested; then let…
11Their wives in the same way must be…
12Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling…
13For those who have served well gain for…
14These things I write to you, hoping to…
15but if I wait long, that you may…
16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great:…
