📖WEB · 1 Timothy 3:2
What does 1 Timothy 3:2 mean?
"The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;"
— 1 Timothy 3:2 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)
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