1 Faithful is this word: If anyone aspires to the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.2 It is necessary, therefore, for a bishop to be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful at teaching;3 not given to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money;4 one ruling his own house well, having [his] children in submission with all reverence;5 (for if one 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 [with pride] he fall into the [same] condemnation as the devil.7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.