1 Timothy 3:8-13

Overseers and Deacons

⁸Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; ⁹holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. ¹⁰And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless. ¹¹Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. ¹²Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well. ¹³For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.