1 Timothy 3:1-7 - Qualifications For Overseers
1 IT is a true saying, If any one desires an episcopate he desires a good work. 2 It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach, 3 not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious, 4 ruling well his own house, having his children in subjection with all dignity,??5 but if any one knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God???6 not a novice, lest being inflated with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7 And he must also have a good name from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.