1 Timothy 3:1-7 - Qualifications For Overseers

¹ How true is that saying! When a man aspires to be a Presiding-Officer in the Church, he is ambitious for a noble task. ² The Presiding-Officer should be a man of blameless character; a faithful husband; living a temperate, discreet, and well-ordered life; hospitable, and a skillful teacher, ³ not addicted to drink or brawling, but of a forbearing and peaceable disposition, and not a lover of money; ⁴ he should be a man who rules his own household well, and whose children are kept under control and are well-behaved. ⁵ If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how can he take charge of the Church of God? ⁶ The Presiding-Officer should not be a recent convert, that he may not be blinded by pride and fall under the same condemnation as the Devil. ⁷ He should also be well spoken of by outsiders, that he may not incur censure and so fall into the snares of the Devil.