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The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.

The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;

not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,

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