[3:1] The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
[3:2] Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
[3:3] not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
[3:4] He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
[3:5] for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?
[3:6] He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
[3:7] Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.