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geneva@1Timothy:3:1 @ This (note:)Having completed the treatise of doctrine and of the manner of handling of it, as well also of public prayer, he now in the third place comes to the persons themselves, speaking first of pastors, and afterwards of deacons. And he uses a preface, so that the church may know that these are certain and sure rules.(:note) [is] a true saying, The office of bishop, or the ministry of the word is not an idle dignity, but a work, and that an excellent work: and therefore a bishop must be furnished with many virtues both at home and abroad. Therefore it is necessary before he is chosen to examine well his learning, his gifts, his abilities, and his life. If a man He does not speak here of ambitious seeking, of which there cannot be a worse fault in the Church, but generally of the mind and disposition of man, prepared and disposed to help and edify the Church of God, when and wherever it will please the Lord. desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

geneva@1Timothy:3:2 @ A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of (note:)Therefore he that shuts out married men from the office of bishops, only because they are married, is antichrist.(:note) one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

geneva@1Timothy:3:3 @ Not (note:)A common drinker and one that will often partake of it.(:note) given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

geneva@1Timothy:3:4 @ One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.

geneva@1Timothy:3:5 @ For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?

geneva@1Timothy:3:6 @ Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the (note:)Lest by reason that he is advanced to that position, he takes occasion to be proud, which will undo him, and so he fall into the same condemnation that the devil himself has fallen into.(:note) condemnation of the devil.

geneva@1Timothy:3:7 @ He must also be well reported of, euen of them which are without, lest he fall into rebuke, and the snare of the deuill.

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geneva@1Timothy:3:9 @ Holding the (note:)The doctrine of the Gospel, which is indeed a mystery: for flesh and blood do not reveal it.(:note) mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

geneva@1Timothy:3:10 @ And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.

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geneva@1Timothy:3:13 @ For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good (note:)Honour and estimation.(:note) degree, and Bold and assured confidence without fear. great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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geneva@1Timothy:3:15 @ But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the (note:)The pastor always has to consider how he carries out his duties in the house of the living God, in which the treasure of the truth is kept.(:note) house of God, which is the church of the living God, the That is, with regard to man: for the Church rested upon that cornerstone, Christ, and is the preserver of the truth, but not the mother. pillar and ground of the truth.

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