Paul’s First Letter to Timothy
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This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
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The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
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not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
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one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
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(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
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not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
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Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
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holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
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Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.
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Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
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Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly,
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but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
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Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
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