1 Timóteo 3

1 This is a trustworthy statement: "If someone aspires to be an elder, this is a good work to want to do." 2 An elder must be above reproach, married to one wife, self-controlled, well-balanced, sensible, hospitable, and able to teach. 3 He should be someone who doesn’t get drunk or become violent, but is gentle, and is not argumentative or greedy for money. 4 He must handle his own family well. His children must respect what he tells them to do. 5 (For if a man doesn’t know how to manage his own family, how can he manage God’s church?) 6 He should not be a new believer, in case he gets so full of himself*3:6. Or "he becomes proud and arrogant." that he falls under the same condemnation as the devil. 7 People outside the church should also speak well of him so that he won’t disgrace himself and fall into the devil’s trap.