¶ 15 verses cited by the Catechism · † 15 verses with comments from the Fathers · ⇄ 13 verses with cross-references . Tap a marked verse to open its catena.
1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.¶†⇄ (27 connections) 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;¶†⇄ (35 connections) 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;¶†⇄ (11 connections) 4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;¶†⇄ (23 connections) 5 (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)¶†⇄ (8 connections) 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.¶†⇄ (15 connections) 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.¶†⇄ (19 connections)
8 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,¶† (3 connections) 9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.¶† (3 connections) 10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.¶†⇄ (18 connections) 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.¶†⇄ (4 connections) 12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.¶†⇄ (7 connections) 13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.¶†⇄ (5 connections)
14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly, 15 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.¶†⇄ (26 connections) 16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.¶†⇄ (66 connections)