The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
The little word "must" (must be blameless) stresses the necessity of being above reproach. There is no question about it: if a man desire the office of a bishop, his life must be lived before Christ and others in great love, honesty, and general uprightness. In his commentary on First Timothy, David Lipscomb says, "elders should be men of unimpeachable character" (146).