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For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
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Verse 7. Not proud. [6] The Greek word is of an extensive signification, which the Protestants have translated self-willed. The Latin interpreter (2 Peter 2:10) for the same Greek word has put, pleasing themselves; as it were never pleased with others, the unhappy disposition of a proud man. Witham.
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