1 True the word: If any one an oversight long after, excellent a work he desires.
2 It behooves then the overseer unblamable to be, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sedate, orderly, hospitable, fit to teach;
3 not a wine drinker, not a striker, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;
4 of the own house well presiding, children having in subjection with all dignity;
5 (if but any one of the own house to preside not knows, how a congregation of God will he take care off?)
6 not a new convert, so that not being puffed up into a judgment he may fall of the accuser;
7 it behooves but him also a testimony good to have from those outside, so that not into reproach he may fall and a snare of the accuser.