¹ This is a true saying: If a man covet the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. ² Yea, and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly appareled, harborous, apt to teach, ³ not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness, ⁴ and one that ruleth his own house honestly, having children under obedience, with all honesty. ⁵ For if a man cannot rule his own house, how shall he care for the congregation of God? ⁶ He may not be a young scholar, lest he swell and fall into the judgment of the evil speaker. ⁷ He must also be well reported of among them which are without forth, lest he fall into rebuke, and into the snare of the evil speaker.