1 Timothy 3:1-5 ▼

1 Trustworthy is the word: If anyone aspires to overseership, he is desirous of a good work.

2 Therefore it is necessary for the overseer to be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober, sound-minded, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

3 not given to wine, not a striker but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money,

4 presiding over his own house well, having children in submission, with all dignity—

5 but if anyone does not know how to preside over his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?—