[DailyReading] Qualifications for those who preach

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Lesson: Preaching Christ
Reading: Qualifications for those who preach  2012-08-02
Reference: 1 Tim. 3:1-13 

1Tim 3:1: This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
1Tim 3:2: A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1Tim 3:3: Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1Tim 3:4: One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
1Tim 3:5: (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
1Tim 3:6: Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
1Tim 3:7: Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1Tim 3:8: Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
1Tim 3:9: Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1Tim 3:10: And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
1Tim 3:11: Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
1Tim 3:12: Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
1Tim 3:13: For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
(KJV) 





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