1 Faithful [is] the word: If anyone reaches out to overseership, he desires a good work.
2 Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching,
3 not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,
4 ruling his own house well, having children in subjection with all honor.
5 (For if a man does not know to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
6 not a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the Devil.
7 But he must also have a good report from those on the outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.