Thematic Bible
1 Timothy 3:1 (show verse)
Faithful is the saying, "If anyone desires the office of bishop, he covets a noble work."
1 Timothy 3:2 (show verse)
It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach,
1 Timothy 3:3 (show verse)
not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,
1 Timothy 3:4 (show verse)
presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity
1 Timothy 3:5 (show verse)
(but, if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of an assembly of God?);
1 Timothy 3:6 (show verse)
not a novice; lest, being puffed up, he fall into condemnation of the Devil.
1 Timothy 3:7 (show verse)
And it is needful also that he have an honorable testimony from those without, lest he fall into reproach and a snare of the Devil.
1 Timothy 3:8 (show verse)
It is needful that deacons, in like manner, be grave, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy of base gain;
1 Timothy 3:9 (show verse)
holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1 Timothy 3:10 (show verse)
But let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, being without reproach.
1 Timothy 3:11 (show verse)
It is needful that their wives, in like manner, be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
1 Timothy 3:12 (show verse)
Let deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over their own children and their own houses.
1 Timothy 3:13 (show verse)
For those serving well as deacons acquire for themselves a noble standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 3:14 (show verse)
These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
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1 Timothy 3:15 (show verse)
but, if I delay, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in a house of God, which, indeed, is an assembly of the living God, a pillar and basis of the truth,
1 Timothy 3:16 (show verse)
And, confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifested in flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.