This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. Tit 1:7Act 20:281Pe 5:21Pe 2:251Ti 1:15Jas 5:19-201Ti 3:2-71Ti 4:9 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Tit 1:6-92Ti 2:24Rom 12:131Ti 5:91Pe 4:91Pe 5:81Ti 3:10-11Tit 2:2 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; Tit 1:7Tit 3:21Ti 3:8Eph 5:18Isa 28:7Jas 4:11Pe 5:2Heb 13:5 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; Tit 1:61Ti 3:12Gen 18:19Tit 2:2Act 10:2Jos 24:15Psa 101:2-8Tit 2:7 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) 1Sa 3:13Eph 5:24Act 20:28Eph 5:321Ti 3:15Eph 1:221Sa 2:29-301Co 10:32 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. 1Ti 6:4Heb 5:12-131Pe 5:51Pe 2:21Co 3:11Co 4:6-81Co 8:12Co 12:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 2Co 8:212Ti 2:26Col 4:51Co 10:321Th 4:121Ti 6:92Co 6:3Act 6:3 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; Php 1:1Act 6:3-61Ti 3:31Ti 5:23Tit 2:3Lev 10:91Ti 3:12Ezk 44:21 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 1Ti 1:192Jn 1:9-101Ti 1:51Ti 3:16 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. 1Ti 5:221Ti 3:13Tit 1:6-71Co 1:81Ti 3:21Ti 3:6Act 6:1-21Jn 4:1 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. Tit 2:3Tit 3:21Ti 3:21Pe 5:82Ti 3:3Pro 10:181Th 5:6-81Ti 1:12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. 1Ti 3:21Ti 3:4-51Ti 3:8Php 1:1 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. Mat 25:21Heb 6:101Co 16:151Pe 4:10-111Th 2:22Ti 2:1Act 21:35Act 6:15 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: 1Co 11:34Phm 1:221Th 2:181Ti 4:132Co 1:15-172Jn 1:123Jn 1:14Heb 13:23 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. 1Pe 2:5Eph 2:21-221Ch 22:131Ki 2:41Th 1:9Mat 16:18-191Ch 28:9-211Sa 17:26 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. Jhn 1:14Heb 1:3Mrk 16:19Rom 16:251Jn 5:6-81Jn 1:2Php 2:6-8Col 1:23