Qualifications for Overseers

3 This saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a good work. 2 Therefore the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not given to wine, not violent, [fn]not greedy for sordid gain, but gentle, not contentious, and not a lover of money. 4 He must lead his own household well, keeping his children in submission with all dignity. 5 (For if a man does not know how to lead his own household, how will he take care of God's church?) 6 He must not be a new convert, or he might become puffed up and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7 He must also have a good reputation among outsiders, so that he does not fall into the reproach and snare of the devil.