1 Timothy 3

 1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

 4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

 6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

 7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

 8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

 9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

 10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

 11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober,faithful in all things.

 12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

 13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

 14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:

 15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:  God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Hebrews 3

1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

 2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

 3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

 4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

 5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as aservant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into myrest.)

 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evilheart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;

 15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

 19 So we see that they could not enter in because ofunbelief.