This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer{Or, bishop}, he desires a good work.
office of a bishop: This office has come, in our day, to mean something wholly different from what Paul had in mind. People are apt to think of a bishop as one who dresses in a peculiar way, one adorned with a long, black robe and a stiff, white, reversed collar. His countenance, they say, is stern. He is aloof, a man too often alone with God. In the New Testament, however, the bishop or elder is not pictured as an iron rule authoritarian but, rather, as an humble man who views himself as simply a leader among equals; he knows that the ground at the foot of the cross is level; standing there he sees himself: not taller, not better, but simply a forgiven servant.