1 Timothy 3

Qualifications for Overseers and Deacons

1This saying is trustworthy: # 3:1 1Tm 1:15; 4:9 “If anyone aspires to be an overseer, # 3:1 Or bishop, or pastor,# 3:1 Ac 20:28; Php 1:1; Ti 1:7 he desires a noble work.” 2An overseer, # 3:2–4 Ti 1:6–8 therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, # 3:2 Ti 2:2,5 respectable, hospitable, # 3:2 Lv 19:34; 1Pt 4:9; 2Jn 10 able to teach, 3not an excessive drinker, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy. # 3:3 1Tm 6:10 4He must manage his own household competently and have his children under control with all dignity. 5(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s church?) 6He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and incur the same condemnation as the devil. # 3:6 1Tm 5:12; 2Pt 2:3; Rv 20:1–15 7Furthermore, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, so that he does not fall into disgrace and the devil’s # 3:7 Ac 13:10 trap.

8Deacons, # 3:8 Php 1:1 likewise, should be worthy of respect, not hypocritical, not drinking a lot of wine, not greedy for money, 9holding the mystery of the faith # 3:9 Php 1:27; 1Tm 1:2,19; Jd 3 with a clear conscience. # 3:9 Heb 13:18 10They must also be tested first; if they prove blameless, then they can serve as deacons. 11Wives, # 3:11 Or Women,# 3:11 1Pt 3:1–6 likewise, should be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, # 3:11 Ti 2:2 faithful in everything. 12Deacons are to be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households competently. 13For those who have served well as deacons acquire a good standing for themselves and great boldness in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

The Mystery of Godliness

14I write these things to you, hoping to come # 3:14 1Tm 4:13 to you soon. 15But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, # 3:15 1Co 3:16; 2Co 6:16; Eph 2:21–22; 1Pt 2:5; 4:17 which is the church of the living God, # 3:15 Mt 16:16; 1Tm 4:10 the pillar and foundation of the truth. # 3:15 Ps 119:142; 2Co 11:10; 2Th 2:10 16And most certainly, the mystery of godliness # 3:16 2Pt 1:3 is great:

He # 3:16 Other mss read God was manifested in the flesh, # 3:16 Jn 1:14; Php 2:7; 1Jn 4:2; 5:20

vindicated in the Spirit, # 3:16 Rm 1:3–4; 2:28–29; 7:5–6; 8:4; 1Co 5:5; 6:16–17; Gl 3:3; 4:29; 5:16–24; 6:8; Php 3:3; Col 2:5; Rv 1:10

seen by angels,

preached among the nations,

believed # 3:16 Mt 11:24; Jn 3:16; Ac 10:43; Rm 10:9; 1Pt 1:8–10 on in the world,

taken up in glory. # 3:16 Mk 16:19; Jn 20:17; 1Pt 3:22

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1Trustworthy is the dvar Emes: if anyone aspires to the congregational office of Mashgiach Ruchani (Spiritual Overseer) over the Adat Hashem (Congregation of G-d), he desires a good task. 2It is necessary, therefore, for the congregational Mashgiach Ruchani to be without reproach, ba'al isha echat (a one woman man/master),#3:2 See 1Sm 2:22-25, i.e., kedushah and tahorah characterized by heterosexuality, exclusivity, and fidelity drug-free and clear-headed, a man of seichel, practiced in derech eretz and hachnosas orchim (hospitality), skillful as a rabbinic moreh (yeshiva teacher), 3Not a shikkor (drunkard) indulging in much wine, not violent but forbearing and eidel (gentle, courteous), not a ba'al machlokes (quarrelsome person), not a gelt-loving kamtzan (miser). 4He must be a ba'al bayit who can manage his own household well, having his banim (children) in submission with all respect. 5Now if anyone does not have da'as of how to manage his own bais, how will he be a menahel ruchani (spiritual administrator) who can give oversight to the Kehillah of Hashem? 6He must not be a neophyte in the emunah [of Moshiach], lest, having become a ba'al gaavah (a haughty person), he might fall into the din HaSatan (the judgment or verdict of the Adversary, the Accuser). 7Now it is necessary also for him to have a keter shem tov (good name) with the outsiders, lest he might fall into reproach and a pakh (pitfall, trap) of HaSatan.

8Messianic Shammashim similarly must be respectable men of derech eretz, not double-tongued, the Shammash not a shikkor (drunkard) indulging in much wine, not a lover of dishonest gain, 9Keeping the sod haemunah (the mystery of the faith) with a clear matzpun#3:9 1:5,19 (conscience). 10And let these Messianic Shammashim also be tested before holding office and then, if they prove unreprovable, let them have the avodas hakodesh sherut (ministry) of Messianic Shammashim. 11Nashim#3:11 see Ro 16:1 (women) serving as Shammashim similarly must be tzidkaniyot (righteous women), respectable, not yentas with mouths of lashon hora and rekhilus (gossip), but nashim who are temperate and faithful in all things. 12Let the Shammashim be ba'alei isha achat (one wife husbands), managing well their banim and their own batim (households). 13For the ones having served well in the avodas hakodesh of Messianic Shammashim acquire for themselves a good standing and much bitachon in emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.

14I have the tikvah to come to you soon, but I am writing these directives so that, 15If I delay, you may have da'as of the halachah in the Beis Hashem, which is the Adat HaEl Chai (the Community of the Living G-d), the ammud (pillar) and yesod (foundation) of HaEmes. 16And confessedly great is the sod of chasidus:#3:16 see 1Ti 3:9

Elokim was manifested in basar,

was vindicated#3:16 proven just by the Ruach HaKodesh,

was seen by malachim,

was proclaimed among the Nations,

was believed on in the world,

was taken up in kavod.

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