1. Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
2. The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3. no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
4. one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5. (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
6. not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
7. Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
8. Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;