1 Timothy 3:1-7

Qualifications for Overseers (Bishops)

1 Timothy 3:1-7
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Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
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The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
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no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
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one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
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(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
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not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
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Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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