1This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
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For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; …
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The two epistles to Timothy, and that to Titus, contain a scripture-plan of church-government, or a direction to ministers. Timothy, we suppose, was an evangelist who was left at Ephesus, to take care of those whom the Holy Ghost had made bishops there, that is, the presbyters, as appears by Acts 20:28; where the care of the church was committed to the presbyters, and they were called bishops. It…
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