1 Timóteo 3

1 A faithful word [I shall say]. If any man desireth a bishopric, he desireth a good work.

2 Therefore it behooveth a bishop to be without reproof, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, chaste, virtuous, holding hospitality, a teacher;

3 not given much to wine, not a smiter, but temperate [or patient], not full of chiding [or strife], not covetous,

4 well-ruling his house, and have sons subject with all chastity;

5 for if any man know not how to govern his house, how shall he have diligence [or the keeping] of the church of God?

6 not new converted to the faith, lest he be borne up into pride, and fall into [the] doom of the devil.

7 For it behooveth him to have also good witnessing of them that be with-outforth, that he fall not into reproof, and into the snare of the devil.