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NASB | 1 Timothy 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 3:2 Now an overseer must be blameless and beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
Bible Question (short): What did Paul mean by 1 Timothy 3:2b? |
Question (full): What did the Apostle Paul mean by the statement in 1 Timothy 3:2b? Was he referring to men who had been divorced or abandoned without biblical reason by their spouse? What light do you see that the statements Jesus made to the Pharisees in Matthew 5:31-32;19:7-10 have to bear on this subject? |