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1 Timothy 3:1

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.

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1 Timothy 3:2

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

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1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

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1 Timothy 3:4

He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,

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1 Timothy 3:5

for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?

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1 Timothy 3:6

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

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1 Timothy 3:7

Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.

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