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.