1
Stedfast [is] the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;
2
it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,
3
not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,
4
his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,
5
(and if any one his own house [how] to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)
6
not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;