1 Timothy 3:1-7

Qualifications for Overseers and Deacons

1 Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task.
2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
4 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[a] respect.
5 (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)
6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.
7 He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.

Cross References 16

  • 1. S 1 Timothy 1:15
  • 2. Acts 20:28; Philippians 1:1; Titus 1:7
  • 3. Titus 1:6-8
  • 4. ver 12
  • 5. ver 11; Titus 2:2
  • 6. S Romans 12:13
  • 7. 2 Timothy 2:24
  • 8. Titus 1:7
  • 9. 2 Timothy 2:24
  • 10. Luke 16:14; 1 Timothy 6:10; 2 Timothy 3:2; Hebrews 13:5; 1 Peter 5:2
  • 11. ver 12; Titus 1:6
  • 12. S 1 Corinthians 10:32
  • 13. 1 Timothy 6:4; 2 Timothy 3:4
  • 14. S 2 Peter 2:4
  • 15. S Mark 4:11
  • 16. 2 Timothy 2:26

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