[ { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 1, "verse_start_alt": "1", "verse_end": 1, "verse_end_alt": "1", "verse_text": "The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task." }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 2, "verse_start_alt": "2", "verse_end": 2, "verse_end_alt": "2", "verse_text": "Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach," }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 3, "verse_start_alt": "3", "verse_end": 3, "verse_end_alt": "3", "verse_text": "not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money." }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 4, "verse_start_alt": "4", "verse_end": 4, "verse_end_alt": "4", "verse_text": "He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive," }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 5, "verse_start_alt": "5", "verse_end": 5, "verse_end_alt": "5", "verse_text": "for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God\u2019s church?" }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 6, "verse_start_alt": "6", "verse_end": 6, "verse_end_alt": "6", "verse_text": "He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil." }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 7, "verse_start_alt": "7", "verse_end": 7, "verse_end_alt": "7", "verse_text": "Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil." }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 8, "verse_start_alt": "8", "verse_end": 8, "verse_end_alt": "8", "verse_text": "Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain." }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 9, "verse_start_alt": "9", "verse_end": 9, "verse_end_alt": "9", "verse_text": "They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience." }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 10, "verse_start_alt": "10", "verse_end": 10, "verse_end_alt": "10", "verse_text": "And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless." }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 11, "verse_start_alt": "11", "verse_end": 11, "verse_end_alt": "11", "verse_text": "Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things." }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 12, "verse_start_alt": "12", "verse_end": 12, "verse_end_alt": "12", "verse_text": "Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well." }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 13, "verse_start_alt": "13", "verse_end": 13, "verse_end_alt": "13", "verse_text": "For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus." }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 14, "verse_start_alt": "14", "verse_end": 14, "verse_end_alt": "14", "verse_text": "I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that," }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 15, "verse_start_alt": "15", "verse_end": 15, "verse_end_alt": "15", "verse_text": "if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth." }, { "book_id": "1TI", "book_name": "1 Timothy", "book_name_alt": "1 Timothy", "chapter": 3, "chapter_alt": "", "verse_start": 16, "verse_start_alt": "16", "verse_end": 16, "verse_end_alt": "16", "verse_text": "Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory." } ]