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1 Timothy 3:1

Verse 1 of 16. The 3rd of 6 chapters in 1 Timothy, in The Letters of Paul.

1This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

4one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

5(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)

Read 1 Timothy 3

World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.