What Does the Bible Say About Eligibility?

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ...

Titus 1:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior; To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— ...

1 Timothy 5:3-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives. Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach. ...

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

1 Timothy 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

1 Corinthians 7:37-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well. So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

9 Bible Verses about Eligibility

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 1:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:3-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:37-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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9 Bible Verses about Eligibility

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1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 1:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:3-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:37-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes