Bible Verses About Bishop

A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,

Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,

One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.

For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?

He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the deuill.

He must also be well reported of, euen of them which are without, lest he fall into rebuke, and the snare of the deuill.

For this cause left I thee in Creta, that thou shouldest continue to redresse the thinges that remaine, and shouldest ordeine Elders in euery citie, as I appointed thee,

If any be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, hauing faithfull children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.

For a Bishop must bee vnreproueable, as Gods steward, not froward, not angrie, not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthie lucre,

But harberous, one that loueth goodnesse, wise, righteous, holy, temperate,

Holding fast that faithfull worde according to doctrine, that he also may bee able to exhort with wholesome doctrine, and conuince them that say against it.

For there are many disobedient and vaine talkers and deceiuers of mindes, chiefly they of the Circumcision,

Whose mouthes must bee stopped, which subuert whole houses, teaching things, which they ought not, for filthie lucres sake.