1 If anyone, for oversight, is eager, a noble work, doth he covet:
2 It is needful, then, for, the overseer, to be irreproachable, a husband, of one wife, sober, of sound mind, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching,
3 Not given to wine, not ready to wound, but considerate, averse to contention, not fond of money,
4 Over his own house, presiding, well, having, children, in submission, with all dignity;
5 Whereas, if anyone, over his own house, cannot, preside, how, of an assembly of God, shall he take care?
6 Not a new convert, lest, being beclouded, into the sentence of the adversary, he fall;
7 It is needful, moreover, to have, an honourable testimony also, from them who are without, lest, into reproach, he fall, and the snare of the adversary.