1 Timothy 3:1-3

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Qualifications of Bishops

3 The saying is sure:^[a] whoever aspires to the office of bishop^[b] desires a noble task.^{(A) 2} Now a bishop^[c] must be above reproach, married only once,^[d] temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher,^{(B) 3} not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.^(C)