^{2 Ref} The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

^{3 Ref} not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

^{4 Ref} one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

^{5 Ref} (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

^{6 Ref} not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

^{7 Ref} Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.