1. The saying is trustworthy: if anyone aspires to supervision, he desires a good work.
2. Therefore the overseer must be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching,
3. not addicted to wine, not a violent person, but gentle, peaceable, not loving money,
4. managing his own household well, having children in submission with all dignity
5. (but if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),