1 Timothy 3:1-5 ▼

1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

5 (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)