1 Timothy 3:1-13  Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

3 A faithful saying: if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

² It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

³ Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

⁴ One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.

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

⁶ Not a neophyte: lest being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

⁷ Moreover he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

⁸ Deacons in like manner chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

⁹ Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.

¹⁰ And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, having no crime.

¹¹ The women in like manner chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

¹² Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children, and their own houses.

¹³ For they that have ministered well, shall purchase to themselves a good degree, and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.