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An anonymous household welcomes visitors through an open doorway beside food and a scroll.
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1 Timothy 3:1-2

A Good Work of Oversight

Character for the Household of God · 1 Timothy 3

Story guide: Visual essay: The welcoming household illustrates hospitality among the qualities required for oversight.

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1This saying is trustworthy: if anyone aspires to oversight, he desires a good work.

2Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

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