7 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. Now Paul amplifies the idea of blamelessness with a series of negative characteristics followed by a series of positive characteristics to further define the idea. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God. A “steward” (Greek oikonomos) is one who orders a household, who manages affairs for the owner. Thus, a bishop is charged with the affairs