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If anyone, for oversight, is eager, a noble work, doth he covet: -

It is needful, then, for, the overseer, to be irreproachable, a husband, of one wife, sober, of sound mind, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching,

Not given to wine, not ready to wound, but considerate, averse to contention, not fond of money,

Over his own house, presiding, well, having, children, in submission, with all dignity;

Whereas, if anyone, over his own house, cannot, preside, how, of an assembly of God, shall he take care?

Not a new convert, lest, being beclouded, into the sentence of the adversary, he fall;

It is needful, moreover, to have, an honourable testimony also, from them who are without, lest, into reproach, he fall, and the snare of the adversary.