^{7 Ref} for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

^{8 Ref} but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

^{9 Ref} holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;