1 Timothy 2:8-3:7

New International Version

⁸ Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands^(A) without anger or disputing. ⁹ I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,^{(B) 10} but with good deeds,^(C) appropriate for women who profess to worship God.

¹¹ A woman^[a] should learn in quietness and full submission.^{(D) 12} I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;^[b] she must be quiet.^{(E) 13} For Adam was formed first, then Eve.^{(F) 14} And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.^{(G) 15} But women^[c] will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love^(H) and holiness with propriety.

Qualifications for Overseers and Deacons

3 Here is a trustworthy saying:^(I) Whoever aspires to be an overseer^(J) desires a noble task. ² Now the overseer is to be above reproach,^(K) faithful to his wife,^(L) temperate,^(M) self-controlled, respectable, hospitable,^(N) able to teach,^{(O) 3} not given to drunkenness,^(P) not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome,^(Q) not a lover of money.^{(R) 4} He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full^[d] respect.^{(S) 5} (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)^{(T) 6} He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited^(U) and fall under the same judgment^(V) as the devil. ⁷ He must also have a good reputation with outsiders,^(W) so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.^(X)