English Bible Presentation Sharing - 1-Timothy Book, chapter 3, verse 19 in Litv Version

1 Timothy 3 : 1 (LITV)

Faithful is the Word: If anyone reaches out to overseership, he desires a good work.

1 Timothy 3 : 2 (LITV)

Then it behooves the overseer to be blameless, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching;

1 Timothy 3 : 3 (LITV)

not a drunkard, not a contentious one, not money-loving, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not avaricious;

1 Timothy 3 : 4 (LITV)

ruling his own house well, having children in subjection with all respect.

1 Timothy 3 : 5 (LITV)

But if anyone does not know how to rule his own house, how will he care for an assembly of God?

1 Timothy 3 : 6 (LITV)

He should not be a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the devil's judgment.

1 Timothy 3 : 7 (LITV)

But he must also have a good witness from those outside, that he not fall into reproach and into a snare of the devil.

1 Timothy 3 : 8 (LITV)

Likewise, deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,

1 Timothy 3 : 9 (LITV)

having the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.

1 Timothy 3 : 10 (LITV)

And also let these be tested first, then let them serve, being without reproach.

1 Timothy 3 : 11 (LITV)

Likewise, their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 3 : 12 (LITV)

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their own houses and children well.

1 Timothy 3 : 13 (LITV)

For those having served well gain a good grade for themselves and much boldness in faith, those in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 3 : 14 (LITV)

I write these things to you, hoping to come to you shortly.

1 Timothy 3 : 15 (LITV)

But if I delay, that you may know how to behave in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

1 Timothy 3 : 16 (LITV)

And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in flesh, was justified in Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.