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1 Timothy 3:1
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Qualifications for Overseers and Deacons
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Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task.
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1 Timothy 3:1 in Other Translations
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This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
ESV
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The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
NLT
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This is a trustworthy saying: “If someone aspires to be an elder, he desires an honorable position.”
MSG
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If anyone wants to provide leadership in the church, good!
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This saying is trustworthy: "If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble work."
1 Timothy 3:1 In-Context
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Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task.
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Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
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not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
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He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect.
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(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)
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1 Timothy 1:15
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Acts 20:28
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Philippians 1:1
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Titus 1:7
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