1 Timothy 3:1-7

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        1.  This is a true saying, If a man desire 
      
      
        <b>the office of a bishop</b>
      
      
        , he desireth a good work.
      
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         2.  A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good 
        behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
      
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         3.  Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but 
      
      
        <b>patient</b>
      
      
        , not a brawler, not covetous;
      
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         4.  One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all 
        gravity;
      
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         5.  (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the 
      
      
        <b>church </b>
      
      
        of God?)
      
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         6.  Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into
      
      
        <b> the condemnation of the devil.</b>
      
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        <b> 7.  Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into 
        reproach and the snare of the devil</b>
      
      
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