The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Timothy 03
1 This is a faithful saying: someone who
seeks to be an overseer† desires a good
work.
2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach,
the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible,
modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy
for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome,
not covetous;
4 one who rules his own house well,
having children in subjection with
all reverence;
5 (for how could someone who doesn’t
know how to rule his own house take care
of God’s assembly?)
6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up
he fall into the same condemnation as the
devil.
7 Moreover he must have good testimony from
those who are outside, to avoid falling
into reproach and the snare of the devil.
8 Servants,‡ in the same way, must
be reverent, not double-tongued, not
addicted to much wine, not greedy for
money,
9 holding the mystery of the faith in a
pure conscience.
10 Let them also first be tested; then let
them serve§ if they are blameless.
11 Their wives in the same way must be
reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and
faithful in all things.
12 Let servants† be husbands of one wife,
ruling their children and their own houses
well.
13 For those who have served well‡ gain
for themselves a good standing and great
boldness in the faith which is in Christ
Jesus.
14 These things I write to you, hoping to
come to you shortly,
15 but if I wait long, that you may know
how men ought to behave themselves in
God’s house, which is the assembly of the
living God, the pillar and ground of the
truth.
16 Without controversy, the mystery of
godliness is great:
God§ was revealed in the flesh,
justified in the spirit,
seen by angels,
preached among the nations,
believed on in the world,
and received up in glory.