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This is a true saying: If anyone desires the office of an overseer, he desires a worthy work.

Therefore, an overseer must be blameless - the husband of one wife, sober, temperate, modest, hospitable, able to teach -

neither a drunkard nor a brawler nor given to greed, but gentle, peace-loving and without avarice.

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Qualifications for Overseers and Deacons

Here is a trustworthy saying:(A) Whoever aspires to be an overseer(B) desires a noble task. Now the overseer is to be above reproach,(C) faithful to his wife,(D) temperate,(E) self-controlled, respectable, hospitable,(F) able to teach,(G) not given to drunkenness,(H) not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome,(I) not a lover of money.(J)

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