1 Timothy 3

1This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.Cross-references: Prov 11:30 · Luke 15:10 · Acts 1:20 · Acts 20:28 · Rom 11:13 · Eph 4:12 · +13 more

2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;Cross-references: Isa 56:10 · Luke 1:6 · Rom 12:13 · Phil 2:15 · 1Tim 3:10 · 1Tim 4:3 · +9 moreExamined: Mormonism →

3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;Cross-references: Lev 10:9 · 1Sam 2:15 · 1Sam 8:3 · 2Ki 5:20 · Prov 1:19 · Prov 15:27 · +38 more

4one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;Cross-references: Gen 18:19 · Josh 24:15 · Ps 101:2 · Acts 10:2 · Phil 4:8 · 1Tim 3:12 · +3 more

5(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)Cross-references: 1Sam 2:29 · 1Sam 3:13 · Acts 20:28 · 1Cor 10:32 · Eph 1:22 · Eph 5:24 · +2 more

6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.Cross-references: Deut 8:14 · Deut 17:20 · 2Ki 14:10 · 2Chr 26:16 · 2Chr 32:25 · Prov 16:18 · +16 more

7Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:24 · Mark 4:11 · Acts 6:3 · Acts 10:22 · Acts 22:12 · 1Cor 5:12 · +14 more

8Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,Cross-references: Lev 10:9 · Ps 5:9 · Ps 12:2 · Ps 50:19 · Ps 52:2 · Ezek 44:21 · +10 more

9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.Cross-references: 1Tim 1:5 · 1Tim 1:19 · 1Tim 3:16 · 2John 1:9

10Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.Cross-references: Acts 6:1 · 1Cor 1:8 · Col 1:22 · 1Tim 3:2 · 1Tim 3:6 · 1Tim 3:13 · +3 more

11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.Cross-references: Lev 21:7 · Lev 21:13 · Ps 15:3 · Ps 50:20 · Ps 101:5 · Prov 10:18 · +16 more

12Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.Cross-references: Phil 1:1 · 1Tim 3:2 · 1Tim 3:4 · 1Tim 3:8

13For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.Cross-references: Matt 20:28 · Matt 25:21 · Luke 16:10 · Luke 19:17 · Acts 6:5 · Acts 6:8 · +9 more

14These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly,Cross-references: 1Cor 11:34 · 1Cor 16:5 · 2Cor 1:15 · 1Thess 2:18 · 1Tim 4:13 · Phlm 1:22 · +3 more

15but 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.Cross-references: Deut 5:26 · Deut 31:23 · Josh 3:10 · 1Sam 17:26 · 1Sam 17:36 · 1Ki 2:2 · +43 more

16Without 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.Cross-references: Ps 68:17 · Isa 7:14 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 50:5 · Jer 23:5 · Mic 5:2 · +69 more