Tag: Bible

3 The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.

² The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;

³ not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,

⁴ conducting his own house well, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;

⁵ (but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?) ...  ... read full writing

4 But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons

² speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience,

³ forbidding to marry, [bidding] to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

⁴ For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving; ...  ... read full writing