Footnote

b To qualify to serve or to continue serving as an elder, a man is not to be a smiter. He cannot be one who strikes people physically or browbeats them with cutting remarks. Elders and ministerial servants are to preside over their own households in a fine manner. No matter how kindly he may act elsewhere, a man does not qualify if he is a tyrant at home.—1 Timothy 3:2-4, 12.