1 Timothy 3:1-3

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Qualifications of Bishops

3 The saying is sure:^[a] whoever aspires to the office of bishop^[b] desires a noble task. ² Now a bishop^[c] must be above reproach, married only once,^[d] temperate, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher, ³ not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.