not given to drunkenness,(A) not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome,(B) not a lover of money.(C)

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not addicted to wine, not [a]a bully nor quick-tempered and hot-headed, but gentle and considerate, free from the love of money [not greedy for wealth and its inherent power—financially ethical].

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 3:3 I.e. like a bully.

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

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