Trustworthy [is] the saying: If anyone overseership aspires to, of good a work he is desirous.

It behooves therefore the overseer above reproach to be, of one wife [the] husband, sober, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, peaceable, not loving money,

if but one his [own] household to manage not knows, how [the] church of God [how] will he care for? —

not a novice, that not having been puffed up, into [the] judgment he may fall of the devil.

It behooves [him] now also a testimony good to have from those outside, so that not into reproach he may fall, and [the] snare of the devil.

Deacons likewise [must be] dignified, not double-tongued, not to wine much being given, not greedy of dishonest gain,

holding to the mystery of the faith with clear a conscience.

Also these now, they should be tested first; then they should serve, blameless being.

Women likewise [must be] dignified, not slanderers, clear-minded, faithful in all things.

Deacons should be of one wife husbands, [their] children well managing and [their] own households.

Those for well having served, a standing for themselves good acquire, and great confidence in [the] faith that [is] in Christ Jesus.

These things to you I am writing, hoping to come to you in a short time,

if however I shall delay, so that you may have known how it behooves [one] in [the] household of God to conduct oneself, which is [the] church of God [the] living, [the] pillar and base of the truth.

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