Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

 3:14-15 I am writing these things to you, hoping, as I write, to come to you soon. But I am writing, so that, if I am delayed, you may know how to behave yourselves in the household of God, which is the assembly of the living God, and the pillar and buttress of the truth. 