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1 Timothy 3:1–2

Qualifications for Overseers

3 The saying is vtrustworthy: If anyone aspires to wthe office of overseer, he desires a noble task. 2 Therefore xan overseer1 must be above reproach, ythe husband of one wife,2 zsober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, ahospitable, bable to teach,

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v

See ch. 1:15

w

See Acts 20:28

x

Titus 1:6–9

1

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

y

[ch. 5:9]

2

Or a man of one woman; also verse 12

z

ver. 11; Titus 2:2

a

1 Pet. 4:9

b

2 Tim. 2:24

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