Qualifications for Overseers
(Titus 1:5–9; 1 Peter 5:1–4)
This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task. Tit 1:7Act 20:281Pe 5:21Pe 2:251Ti 1:15Jas 5:19-201Ti 3:2-71Ti 4:9 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, 1 temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, Tit 1:6-92Ti 2:24Rom 12:131Ti 5:91Pe 4:91Pe 5:81Ti 3:10-11Tit 2:2 not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money. Tit 1:7Tit 3:21Ti 3:8Eph 5:18Isa 28:7Jas 4:11Pe 5:2Heb 13:5
An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity. Tit 1:61Ti 3:12Gen 18:19Tit 2:2Act 10:2Jos 24:15Psa 101:2-8Tit 2:7 For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God? 1Sa 3:13Eph 5:24Act 20:28Eph 5:321Ti 3:15Eph 1:221Sa 2:29-301Co 10:32 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil. 1Ti 6:4Heb 5:12-131Pe 5:51Pe 2:21Co 3:11Co 4:6-81Co 8:12Co 12:7 Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil. 2Co 8:212Ti 2:26Col 4:51Co 10:321Th 4:121Ti 6:92Co 6:3Act 6:3
Qualifications for Deacons
(Acts 6:1–7)
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money. Php 1:1Act 6:3-61Ti 3:31Ti 5:23Tit 2:3Lev 10:91Ti 3:12Ezk 44:21 They must hold to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 1Ti 1:192Jn 1:9-101Ti 1:51Ti 3:16 Additionally, they must first be tested. Then, if they are above reproach, let them serve as deacons. 1Ti 5:221Ti 3:13Tit 1:6-71Co 1:81Ti 3:21Ti 3:6Act 6:1-21Jn 4:1
In the same way, the women 2must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things. Tit 2:3Tit 3:21Ti 3:21Pe 5:82Ti 3:3Pro 10:181Th 5:6-81Ti 1:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household. 1Ti 3:21Ti 3:4-51Ti 3:8Php 1:1 For those who have served well as deacons acquire for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus. Mat 25:21Heb 6:101Co 16:151Pe 4:10-111Th 2:22Ti 2:1Act 21:35Act 6:15
The Mystery of Godliness
Although I hope to come to you soon, I am writing you these things 1Co 11:34Phm 1:221Th 2:181Ti 4:132Co 1:15-172Jn 1:123Jn 1:14Heb 13:23 in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. 1Pe 2:5Eph 2:21-221Ch 22:131Ki 2:41Th 1:9Mat 16:18-191Ch 28:9-211Sa 17:26
By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: Jhn 1:14Heb 1:3Mrk 16:19Rom 16:251Jn 5:6-81Jn 1:2Php 2:6-8Col 1:23
He appeared 3in the flesh,
was vindicated by the Spirit, 4
was seen by angels,
was proclaimed among the nations,
was believed in throughout the world,
was taken up in glory.