The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
"Respectable comes from the word from which we get our word cosmetics. It comes from the same root word for the orderly world. It denotes an inward orderliness seen in an outward adornment or beauty. It is the same word that is used in 1 Timothy 2:9 to describe how a woman should be dressed, modestly. Here in 1 Timothy 3, it describes a man’s outward conduct of good behavior that comes from his inner character of Christ-likeness." 