Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.
Jesus summoned them and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
Whoever of you wants to become first among you shall be bondservant of all.
For the Son of Man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
It shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.
Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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