Darby Translation 1890

1 Timothy 3:1-10 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

1. 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?)

6. not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil.

7. But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and the snare of the devil.

8. Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,

9. holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

10. And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge against them.