1 Timothy 3:2
Therefore the overseer must be without reproach. He must be a husband of one wife. He must be moderate, sensible, orderly, and hospitable. He must be able to teach.
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1This saying is trustworthy: If someone desires to be an overseer, he desires a good work.
Cross References
Isaiah 56:10All their watchmen are blind, they do not understand. 1 They are all silent dogs who cannot bark. 1 They dream, and lying down they love to sleep. 1
Romans 12:13Share in the needs of the saints. Find many ways to show hospitality.
1 Timothy 3:10They should also be approved first, then they should serve because they are blameless.
1 Timothy 5:9Let a woman be enrolled as a widow who is not younger than sixty, a wife of one husband.
Titus 1:6An elder must be without blame, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who do not have the reputation of being reckless or undisciplined.
Hebrews 3:14For we have become partners of Christ if we firmly hold to our confidence in him from the beginning to the end.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 3:2-8
Duties of Bishops and Deacons. ( a. d. 64.) 1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how… Read the whole commentary →