NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

1 Timothy 3:5

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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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1 Timothy 3:2–8

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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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(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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Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

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