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Therefore, an overseer must be blameless - the husband of one wife, sober, temperate, modest, hospitable, able to teach -

neither a drunkard nor a brawler nor given to greed, but gentle, peace-loving and without avarice.

One who rules his own house well, having obedient children under him with all respect.

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Now the overseer is to be above reproach,(A) faithful to his wife,(B) temperate,(C) self-controlled, respectable, hospitable,(D) able to teach,(E) not given to drunkenness,(F) not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome,(G) not a lover of money.(H) He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full[a] respect.(I)

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  1. 1 Timothy 3:4 Or him with proper