6 if any one is irreproachable, of one wife a husband, children having believing, not under an accusation of profligacy, or of insubordination.

7 It behooves for the overseer irreproachable to be, as of God a steward; not selfindulgent, not passionate, not a wine drinker, not a striker, not eager for base gains,

8 but a friend to strangers, a friend to goodness, prudent, just, holy, selfgoverned,

9 holding fast of the according to the teaching true word, so that able he may be both to exhort by the teaching by that sound and those speaking against to confute.

6 A blameless man will be the husband of one wife. He will have children that believe and who are not accused of violence and disobedience.

7 The overseer must be blameless as God's steward. He must not be self-willed, not prone to anger, not a brawler, and not violent quarrelsomepugnacious, not greedy of dishonest gain.

8 but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to reprove refuterebuke those who contradict.