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1 Timothy

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1 A faithful saying. If a man desire a Bishop's office, he desireth a good work.

2 It behoveth therefore a Bishop to be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, sober, wise, comely, chaste, a man of hospitality, a teacher,

3 not given to wine, no fighter, but modest, no quarreler, not covetous,

4 well ruling his own house, having his children subject with all chastity.

5 But if a man know not to rule his own house, how shall he have care of the Church of God?

6 Not a neophyte: lest puffed into pride, he fall into the judgement of the devil.

7 And he must have also good testimony of them that are without: that he fall not into reproach and the snare of the devil.