1. This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.
2. An overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach;
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money, but patient, not argumentative, not covetous;
4. and one who manages his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence.
5. For if a man does not know how to manage his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?