| 3:1 | This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. |
| 3:2 | A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; |
| 3:3 | Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; |
| 3:4 | One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; |
| 3:5 | (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) |
| 3:6 | Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. |
| 3:7 | Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. |
| 3:8 | Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; |
| 3:9 | Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. |
| 3:10 | And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. |
| 3:11 | Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. |
| 3:12 | Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. |
| 3:13 | For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. |
| 3:14 | These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: |
| 3:15 | But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. |
| 3:15 | 倘若我耽延日久、你也可以知道在 神的家中當怎樣行．這家就是永生 神的教會、真理的柱石和根基。 |
| 3:15 | 倘若我耽延日久，你也可以知道在神的家中当怎样行。这家就是永生神的教会，真理的柱石和根基。 |
| eph:2:19 | Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; |
| heb:3:6 | But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. |
| mat:16:16 | And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. |
| 1ti:4:10 | For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. |
| eph:2:20 | And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; |
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| 3:16 | And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. |
