1. It is a faithful saying: if a man desires the episcopate, he desires a good work.
2. Therefore, it is necessary for a bishop to be beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, gracious, chaste, hospitable, a teacher,
3. not a drunkard, not combative but restrained, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
4. but a man who leads his own house well, having children who are subordinate with all chastity.
5. For if a man does not know how to lead his own house, how will he take care of the Church of God?
6. He must not be a new convert, lest, being elated by pride, he may fall under the sentence of the devil.