1 Timothy 3:1-3 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. It is a faithful saying: if a man desires the episcopate, he desires a good work.

2. Therefore, it is necessary for a bishop to be beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, gracious, chaste, hospitable, a teacher,

3. not a drunkard, not combative but restrained, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

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