1 Trustworthy is the word: If a man longs for the position of an overseer, he desires a good work.
2 An overseer, then, should be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, sensible, orderly, kind to strangers, able to teach,
3 not given to wine, no brawler, but gentle, not quarrelsome, no lover of money,
4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in subjection with all reverence,