1. The word is faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.
2. The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;
3. not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,
4. conducting his own house well, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5. (but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)
6. not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil.