Because an overseer is God's servant manager, he must be blameless. He must not be arrogant or irritable. He must not drink too much, be a violent person, or make money in shameful ways.

the older women, too, to be reverent in their deportment, and not to be slanderers or slaves to heavy drinking, but to be teachers of what is right,

Urge the younger men, too, to be sensible.

For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.

and poured him out upon us, too, through Jesus the Messiah our Savior true.

Our people too must set examples of doing good, so as to meet the necessary demands and not to live unfruitful lives.