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| 3:1 | Stedfast `is' the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; |
| 3:2 | it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach, |
| 3:3 | not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money, |
| 3:4 | his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity, |
| 3:5 | (and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?) |
| 3:6 | not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil; |
| 3:7 | and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil. |
| 3:8 | Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre, |
| 3:9 | having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience, |
| 3:10 | and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable. |
| 3:11 | Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things. |
| 3:12 | Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses, |
| 3:13 | for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that `is' in Christ Jesus. |
| 3:14 | These things I write to thee, hoping to come unto thee soon, |
| 3:15 | and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth `thee' to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth, |
| 3:16 | and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory! |
| 3:1 | This is a true sayinge. Yf a ma covet ye office of a bysshope he desyreth a good worke. |
| 3:2 | Ye and a bisshope must be fautlesse the husband of one wyfe sober discrete honestly aparelled harberous apt to teache |
| 3:3 | not dronke no fighter not geve to filthy lucre: but gentle abhorrynge fightynge abhorrynge coveteousnes |
| 3:4 | and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly havynge chyldren vnder obedience with all honeste. |
| 3:5 | For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God. |
| 3:6 | He maye not be a yonge skoler lest he swell and faule into the iudgement of the evyll |
| 3:7 | speaker. He must also be well reported of amonge them which are with out forth lest he fall into rebuke and snare of the evyll speaker. |
| 3:8 | Lykwyse must the deacons be honest not double tonged not geve vnto moche drynkinge nether vnto filthy lucre: |
| 3:9 | but havynge the mistery of the fayth in pure consciece. |
| 3:10 | And let them fyrst be proved and then let them minister yf they be founde fautlesse. |
| 3:11 | Even so must their wynes be honest not evyll speakers: but sober and faythfull in all thinges. |
| 3:12 | Let the deacons be the husbandes of one wyfe and suche as rule their chyldren well and their awne housholdes. |
| 3:13 | For they that minister well get them selves good degre and greate libertie in the fayth which is in Christ Iesu. |
| 3:14 | These thinges write I vnto the trustinge to come shortly vnto the: |
| 3:15 | but and yf I tarie longe yt then thou mayst yet have knowledge how thou oughtest to behave thy silfe in the housse of God which is the congregacion of the livinge God the pillar and grounde of trueth. |
| 3:16 | And with out naye great is that mistery of godlines: God was shewed in the flesshe was iustified in the sprete was sene of angels was preached vnto the gentyls was beleved on in erth and receaved vp in glory. |
| 3:1 | This is a true sayege: Yf a ma covet ye office of a Bisshoppe, he desyreth a good worke. |
| 3:2 | But a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, the hussbade of one wife, sober, discrete, manerly, harberous, apte to teach: |
| 3:3 | Not geuen to moch wyne, no fighter, not geuen to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorrynge stryfe, abhorrynge couetousnes: |
| 3:4 | & one that ruleth his awne house honestly, hauynge obedient children with all honestye. |
| 3:5 | (But yf a man can not rule his owne house, how shal he care for the congregacion of God?) |
| 3:6 | He maye not be a yoge scolar, lest he be puft vp, and fall in to the iudgment of ye euell speaker. |
| 3:7 | He must also haue a good reporte of them which are without, lest he fall in to the rebuke and snare of the euell speaker. |
| 3:8 | Likewyse must the mynisters be honest, not double tonged, not geuen to moch wyne, nether vnto fylthie lucre, |
| 3:9 | but hauynge the mystery of faith in pure conscience. |
| 3:10 | And let them first be proued, and then let them mynister, yf they be blamelesse. |
| 3:11 | Euen so must their wyues be honest, not euell speakers, but sober and faithfull in all thinges. |
| 3:12 | Let the mynisters be, euery one the hussbade of one wyfe, and soch as rule their children well, and their owne housholdes. |
| 3:13 | For they that mynister well, get them selues a good degree and greate libertye in the faith which is in Christ Iesu. |
| 3:14 | These thinges wryte I vnto the, trustinge shortly to come vnto the: |
| 3:15 | but yf I tary loge, that then thou mayest yet haue knowlege, how thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in Gods house, which is the congregacion of the lyuynge God, the piler and grounde of trueth: |
| 3:16 | and without naye, greate is that mystery of godlynes. God was shewed in the flesh: was iustified in the sprete: was sene of angels: was preached vnto the Heythen: was beleued on in the worlde: was receaued vp in glory. |
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