1 Timothy 2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ 0 But as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

² 1 Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection.

³ 2 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

⁴ 3 For Adam was first formed; then Eve.

⁵ 4 And Adam was not seduced; but the woman being seduced, was in the transgression.

⁶ 5 Yet she shall be saved through childbearing; if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

⁷ A faithful saying: if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

⁸ It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

⁹ Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

¹⁰ One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.

¹¹ But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

¹² Not a neophyte: lest being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

¹³ Moreover he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

¹⁴ Deacons in like manner chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

¹⁵ Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.