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Qualifications of Bishops

The saying is sure:[a] whoever aspires to the office of bishop[b] desires a noble task. Now a bishop[c] must be above reproach, married only once,[d] temperate, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 3:1 Some interpreters place these words at the end of the previous paragraph. Other ancient authorities read The saying is commonly accepted
  2. 1 Timothy 3:1 Or overseer
  3. 1 Timothy 3:2 Or an overseer
  4. 1 Timothy 3:2 Gk the husband of one wife

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