- It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.
- An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money.
- He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity
- (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),
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- 人若想要得監督的職分、就是羨慕善工.這話是可信的.
- 作監督的、必須無可指責、只作一個婦人的丈夫、有節制、自守、端正、樂意接待遠人、善於教導.
- 不因酒滋事、不打人、只要溫和、不爭競、不貪財.
- 好好管理自己的家、使兒女凡事端莊順服。〔或作端端莊莊的使兒女順服〕
- 人若不知道管理自己的家、焉能照管 神的教會呢。
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