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1 Timothy 3:1-3
Revised Standard Version
1 Timothy 3:1-3
Revised Standard Version
Qualifications of Bishops
3 The saying is sure: If any one aspires to the office of bishop, he desires a noble task. 2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher, 3 no drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and no lover of money.
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