“bishop” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word bishop appears 4 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 4 matching verses are shown below.
- 1 Timothy 3:1 A faithful saying: If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
- 1 Timothy 3:2 It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,
- Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:
- 1 Peter 2:25 For you were as sheep going astray: but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.