24/10/2025
This is a true saying: If a man desires the position of overseer in the church, he desires a good work. An overseer must be blameless, the husband of only one wife, temperate, sound in thinking, of good behaviour, hospitable, able to teach, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for sordid gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money, one who rules his own home well, keeping his children obedient with full respect (for if a man does not know how to rule his own home, how will he take care of the church of God?), not a new convert, or he may get puffed up with pride and fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he must have a good testimony among outsiders, or he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Likewise, the deacons must be honorable, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for sordid gain, but holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
Also their wives must be honorable, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
But in case I am delayed, I am writing so that you may know how you should behave in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
1 Timothy 3:1-9, 11, 15