1 This is a faithful saying: If a man aspires to the position of an overseer, he desires a good work.2 An overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well ordered, hospitable, able to teach;3 not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for money, but fair-minded, not quarrelsome, not loving money;4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in subjection with all respect5 (for 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, that he not be puffed up with pride and fall into the same condemnation as the devil.7 Moreover he must have a good testimony with those who are outside, that he not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.