1. Stedfast [is] the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;
2. it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,
3. not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,
4. his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,
5. (and if any one his own house [how] to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)
6. not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;
7. and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.