1 Timothy 3:1-12

21st Century King James Version

3 This is a true saying: If a man desire the office of bishop, he desireth a good work.

² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt at teaching;

³ not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

⁴ one who ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all dignity.

⁵ (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

⁶ He must not be a novice in the faith, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

⁷ Moreover he must have a good reputation with those who are outsiders, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

⁸ Likewise must the deacons be serious, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for filthy lucre,

⁹ holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.

¹⁰ And let these also first be proved; then, being found blameless, let them make use of the office of a deacon.

¹¹ So also must their wives be serious, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

¹² Let each deacon be the husband of one wife, ruling his children and his own house well.