“The word [is] steadfast: If anyone longs for overseership, he desires a right work;”— 1 Timothy 3:1 (LSV)
1The word [is] steadfast: If anyone longs for overseership, he desires a right work;
2it is required, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, a husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, respectable, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,
3not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,
4leading his own house well, having children in subjection with all dignity,