1 Stedfast is the word: If any one the oversight does long for, a right work he desires;2 it benefits, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,3 not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,4 his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,5 (and if any one his own house how to lead has not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)6 not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;7 and it benefits him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.