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1 Timothy 3

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1This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he 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(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?) ✦ 6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. ✦ 7Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil. ✦ 8Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money; ✦ 9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. ✦ 10Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless. ✦ 11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. ✦ 12Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. ✦ 13For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ✦ 14These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; ✦ 15but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. ✦ 16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

1 Tim 3 ·19Titus 2 ·8Titus 1 ·71 Pet 5 ·6Acts 6 ·62 Tim 2 ·6Col 1 ·61 Tim 5 ·5

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There is 'one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all' — the mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh.

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