1 Timothy 3

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1Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

2The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

3no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

4one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

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