1 aIt is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the boffice of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.

2 aAn overseer, then, must be above reproach, bthe husband of one wife, ctemperate, prudent, respectable, dhospitable, eable to teach,

3 anot addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, bfree from the love of money.