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1 Timothy 3:1-8 English Revised Version (ERV)

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

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

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

4. one 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?)

6. not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

7. Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

8. Deacons in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

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