1 Timothy 3:12

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly,

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.