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1 Timothy 3:1–3

Qualifications for Overseers

The saying is vtrustworthy: If anyone aspires to wthe office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore xan overseer1 must be above reproach, ythe husband of one wife,2 zsober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, ahospitable, bable to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but cgentle, not quarrelsome, dnot a lover of money.

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See ch. 1:15

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1

Or bishop; Greek episkopos; a similar term occurs in verse 1

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[ch. 5:9]

2

Or a man of one woman; also verse 12

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ver. 11; Titus 2:2

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d

Heb. 13:5; [ch. 6:10]

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