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"1": "This word is trustworthy: “If someone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble work.”",
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"2": "Therefore, the overseer must be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, sober, self-controlled, orderly, hospitable, able to teach,",
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"3": "not a drunkard, not a brawler, but gentle, peaceful, not money-loving,",
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"4": "managing his own household well, having children in obedience with all honor",
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"5": "(for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),",
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"6": "not a new convert, so that he may not fall, being puffed up, into the judgment of the devil.",
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"7": "But he must also have a good reputation with those outside, so that he may not fall into disgrace and the trap of the devil.",
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"8": "Likewise deacons must be dignified, not double-talkers, not indulging in much wine, not greedy,",
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"9": "holding the mystery of the faith with a clean conscience.",
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"10": "And let them also be tested first; then let them serve, being blameless.",
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"11": "Likewise the women must be dignified, not slanderers, sober, trustworthy in everything.",
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"12": "Deacons are to be husbands of one wife, managing their own children and households well.",
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"13": "For those having served well acquire for themselves a good standing and much confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.\n\\p",
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"14": "I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you in quickness,",
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"15": "but if I delay, so that you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and support of the truth.",
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"16": "Indeed, admittedly great is the mystery of godliness:\n\\q “Who was revealed in flesh,\n\\q\nwas justified in the Spirit,\n\\q\nwas seen by angels,\n\\q\nwas proclaimed among the nations,\n\\q\nwas believed in the world,\n\\q\nwas taken up in glory.”",
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"front": "\\p"
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}
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