Douay Rheims Original ↷
1 Timothy 3 📜 📕 ↷
Qualifications for Overseers
1 A faithful saying. If a man desire a Bishop's office, he desireth a good work.📜💬📚
2 It behoveth therefore a Bishop to be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, sober, wise, comely, chaste, a man of hospitality, a teacher,📜💬📚
3 not given to wine, no fighter, but modest, no quarreler, not covetous,📜💬📚
4 well ruling his own house, having his children subject with all chastity.📜💬📚
5 But if a man know not to rule his own house, how shall he have care of the Church of God?📜💬📚
6 Not a neophyte: lest puffed into pride, he fall into the judgement of the devil.📜💬📚
7 And he must have also good testimony of them that are without: that he fall not into reproach and the snare of the devil.📜💬📚
Qualifications for Deacons
8 Deacons in like manner chaste, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not followers of filthy lucre:📜💬📚
9 having the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.📜💬📚
10 And let these also be proved first: & so let them minister, having no crime.📜💬📚
11 The women in like manner chaste, not detracting, sober, faithful in all things.📜💬📚
12 Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: which rule well their children, and their houses.📜💬📚
13 For they that have ministered well, shall purchase to themselves a good degree, and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ JESUS.📜💬📚
Mystery of Godliness
14 These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee quickly.📜💬📚
15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to converse in the house of God, which is the CHURCH of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth.📜💬📚
16 And manifestly it is a great sacrament of piety, which was manifested in flesh, was justified in spirit, appeared to Angels, hath been preached to Gentiles, is believed in the world, is assumpted in glory.📜💬📚
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