1 Faithful is the saying, If any man aspires to supervision, he desires a good work.2 The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,3 no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money,4 a man who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all propriety5 (but if any man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of a congregation of God?),6 not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil.7 And he must also have good testimony from those outside, lest he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.