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\v 1 This saying is trustworthy: If someone desires to be an overseer, he desires a good work.
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\v 2 Therefore the overseer must be without reproach, a husband of one wife, moderate, sensible, orderly, hospitable, able to teach,
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\v 3 not addicted to wine, not a brawler, but instead, gentle, peaceful , not a lover of money.
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\v 4 He should manage his own household well, and his children should obey him with all respect;
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\v 5 for if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for a church of God?
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\v 6 He should not be a new convert, so that he does not become proud and fall into condemnation like the devil.
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\v 7 He must also have a good reputation with those outside, so that he does not fall into disgrace and the trap of the devil.
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\v 8 Deacons, likewise, should be dignified, not double-talkers, not drinking too much wine, and not greedy.
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\v 9 They should keep the revealed truth of the faith with a clean conscience.
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\v 10 They should also be approved first, then they should serve because they are above reproach.
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\v 11 Women in the same way should be dignified, not slanderers, moderate, and faithful in all things.
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\v 12 Deacons must be husbands of one wife and manage well their children and home.
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\v 13 For those who have served well acquire for themselves a good standing and great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
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\v 14 I write to you these things and I hope to come to you soon,
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\v 15 but if I delay, I write so that you may know how the house of God, which is the church of the living God, must be guided, the pillar and support of the truth.
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\v 16 And together we agree that the revealed truth of godliness is great:
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\q He appeared in the flesh,
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\q was justified by the Spirit,
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\q was seen by angels,
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\q was proclaimed among nations,
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\q was believed on in the world,
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\q and was taken up in glory."
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