Bible Verses About Bishop

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

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

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

not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge;

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

For the bishop must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.

For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.