^{7 Ref} For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

^{8 Ref} but given to hospitality, as lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

^{9 Ref} holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.