NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 1

1 Timothy 3:1

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This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

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1 Timothy 3:1–4

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This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

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The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

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not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

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one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

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  1. or, superintendent, or bishop

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