1 This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.
2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
3 not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;
4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
5 (but if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.