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1 Timothy 3:1

World English Bible

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

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1 Timothy 3:1 in other translations

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

1 Timothy 3:1 · American Standard Version

1 Timothy 3:1 in context

  1. 1This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
  2. 2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
  3. 3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;