Verse 9
1 Timothy 3:9
Geneva Bible
9
Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.
Original Language Text
greek
ἔχοντας τὸ μυστήριον τῆς πίστεως ἐν καθαρᾷ συνειδήσει.
English Translation
Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
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Chapter 3 Context
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This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie worke.
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A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harb...
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Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,
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One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.
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For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God (Elohim)?
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He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the deuill.
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He must also be well reported of, euen of them which are without, lest he fall into rebuke, and the...
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Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucr...
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Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.
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And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.
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Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
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Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their own...
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For they that haue ministred well, get them selues a good degree, and great libertie in the faith, w...
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These things write I vnto thee, trusting to come very shortly vnto thee.
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But if I tary long, that thou maist yet know, how thou oughtest to behaue thy self in ye house of Go...
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And without controuersie, great is the mysterie of godlinesse, which is, God (Elohim) is manifested...
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