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Faithful is the saying, "If any one is eager to have the oversight of a Church, he desires a noble work."
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A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;
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not a hard drinker nor given to blows; not selfish or quarrelsome or covetous;
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but ruling his own household wisely and well, with children kept under control with true dignity.
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(If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he have the Church of God given into his care?)
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