For if any cannot rule his own house, how shall he care for the Church of God?

He may not be a young scholar, lest he being puffed up fall into the [a]condemnation of the devil.

He must also be well reported of, even of them which are without, lest he fall into rebuke, and the snare of the devil.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 3:6 Lest by reason that he is advanced to that degree, he take occasion to be proud, which will undo him, and so he fall into the same condemnation that the devil himself is fallen into.

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