The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Timothy 3:2 in context
1 Timothy 3:1–5
1
This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
2
Selected verse
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
3
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
4
one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
5
(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
Continue with 1 Timothy 3
Read the complete chapter in World English Bible Updated.
Open 1 Timothy 3