1 Timothy
Paul writes so that Timothy may know how one ought to behave in the household of God. He addresses false teaching, prayer, overseers and deacons, and the good confession of Christ.
Darby Translation
1 Timothy 3
1The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work. 2The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach; 3not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money, 4conducting his own house well, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity; 5(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly ofGod?) 6not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into [the] fault of the devil. 7But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and [the] snare of the devil. 8Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means, 9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 10And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge [against them]. 11[The] women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. 12Let [the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting [their] children and their own houses well: 13for those who shall have ministered well obtain for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in faith which [is] in Christ Jesus. 14These things I write to thee, hoping to come to thee more quickly; 15but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself inGod's house, which is [the] assembly of [the] livingGod, [the] pillar and base of the truth. 16And confessedly the mystery of piety is great.God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in [the] Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among [the] nations, has been believed on in [the] world, has been received up in glory.
John Nelson Darby Translation (1890). Public domain or openly redistributable. Confirm the exact edition before public display if text is later imported.