Qualifications for Overseers

1 Timothy 3

¹ This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a ₁ bishop, he desires a good work. ² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; ³ not ₂ given to wine, not violent, ₃ not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not ₄ covetous; ⁴ one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence ⁵ (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?); ⁶ not a ₅ novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. ⁷ Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the _a snare of the devil.

1. Cross References
   1 Timothy 6:9
   But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
   2 Timothy 2:26
   And that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.