1) This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.

2) A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

3) not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

4) one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence

5) (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);

6) not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

7) Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.