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Qualifications for Overseers and Deacons

This saying is trustworthy:(A) ‘If anyone aspires to be an overseer,[a](B) he desires a noble work.’ An overseer,(C) therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible,(D) respectable, hospitable,(E) able to teach, not an excessive drinker, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy.(F)

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  1. 3:1 Or bishop, or pastor