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1 Timothy 3:1
This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
1 Timothy 3:1 · World English Bible
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1 Timothy 3:1 in other translations
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.
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In context
1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
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