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1 This is a true sayinge. Yf a ma covet ye office of a bysshope he desyreth a good worke. 2 Ye and a bisshope must be fautlesse the husband of one wyfe sober discrete honestly aparelled harberous apt to teache 3 not dronke no fighter not geve to filthy lucre: but gentle abhorrynge fightynge abhorrynge coveteousnes 4 and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly havynge chyldren vnder obedience with all honeste. 5 For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God. 1 Timothy 3:1-5, Tyndale Bible of 1526. Public domain.
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