“This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.”

1 Timothy 3:1 (KJV) |

1 Timothy 3:1

From 1 Timothy 3, in the Book of 1 Timothy (New Testament).

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This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

2

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

3

Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

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