- 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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- Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task.
- Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
- He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect.
- (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)
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