NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 4

1 Timothy 3:4

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

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1 Timothy 3:1–7

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

2

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

3

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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(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)

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not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

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

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