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1 Timothy 3:1-7New King James Version (NKJV)

Qualifications of Overseers

This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop,[a] he desires a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,[b] but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?); not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Footnotes:

  1. 1 Timothy 3:1 Literally overseer
  2. 1 Timothy 3:3 NU-Text omits not greedy for money.
New King James Version (NKJV)

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