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To: CondoleezzaProtege; All

"Neither of them were ever married."

1 Timothy 3:4-5 shows that Paul made the point that if an overseer does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?

Insights welcome.

27 posted on 07/07/2018 4:34:34 PM PDT by Amendment10

To: Amendment10

See post 28 or Chapter 7 of 1st Corinthians.

29 posted on 07/07/2018 4:40:58 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

To: Amendment10

Peter was also single. As were ALL the disciples. God saw them fit to be overseers.

Again: Saint Paul in 1 Cor 7:

7 But I wish everyone were single, just as I am. Yet each person has a special gift from God, of one kind or another.

8 So I say to those who aren’t married and to widows—it’s better to stay unmarried, just as I am.

47 posted on 07/07/2018 5:04:47 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

To: Amendment10

What is controversial though are the disciples’ pasts...as in were any of them widowed?

50 posted on 07/07/2018 5:08:38 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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