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- It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.
- An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money.
- He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity
- (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),
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- and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil.
- And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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