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1 Timothy
1 Timothy 3
1 Timothy 3:1-8
1 Timothy 3
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1 Timothy 3:1-8
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This is a true sayinge. Yf a ma covet ye office of a bysshope he desyreth a good worke.
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Ye and a bisshope must be fautlesse the husband of one wyfe sober discrete honestly aparelled harberous apt to teache
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not dronke no fighter not geve to filthy lucre: but gentle abhorrynge fightynge abhorrynge coveteousnes
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and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly havynge chyldren vnder obedience with all honeste.
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For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God.
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He maye not be a yonge skoler lest he swell and faule into the iudgement of the evyll
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speaker. He must also be well reported of amonge them which are with out forth lest he fall into rebuke and snare of the evyll speaker.
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Lykwyse must the deacons be honest not double tonged not geve vnto moche drynkinge nether vnto filthy lucre:
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