The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
9.    Not "pugnacious" or "violent" (NIV; Gr. me plekten, 1 Timothy 3:3; Titus 1:7; lit. a giver of blows) describes a striker. This is a person who resorts to physical or verbal violence to vent his anger and or to settle disputes.