“For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;”
For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach — he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain — the episkopos (overseer/bishop) is explicitly characterized as God's steward (oikonomos theou), emphasizing fiduciary responsibility before the divine master. The vices catalogued (arrogance, anger, drunkenness, violence, greed) represent failures of self-control contrary to the eusebeia the letter promotes. The stewardship language implies the elder holds Christ's household in trust.
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