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1 Timothy 3:1
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1 Timothy 3:1
1THIS is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
1¶ This is a true saying: If a man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a good worke.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Timothy 3:1
Conforming to fact, reality, or a right standard; faithful, genuine, correct, or dependable.
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A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
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To wish for, long for, request, or take pleasure in.
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A particular duty, charge or trust conferred by public authority and for a public purpose; an employment undertaken by commission or authority from government or those who administer it. A duty, charge or trust of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself.
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That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
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Labor, activity, deed, operation, or a result produced; as a verb, to labor, act, make, produce, or bring about.
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Open the full verse study7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
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Open the full verse study28¶ Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
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Open the full verse study2Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
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Open the full verse study25For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
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Open the full verse study15This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
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Open the full verse study19Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
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Open the full verse study2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4One 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 shall he take care of the church of God?)
6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
7Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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Open the full verse study9This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
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Open the full verse study11It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
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Open the full verse study15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
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Open the full verse study10Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
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Open the full verse study1PAUL and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
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Open the full verse study20For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
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Open the full verse study12For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
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Open the full verse study8This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
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Open the full verse study15But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
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Open the full verse study14Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
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Open the full verse study30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
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Open the full verse study13For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
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