- 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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- 人若想得监督的职分,就是羡慕善工。这话是可信的。
- 作监督的,必须无可指责,只作一个妇人的丈夫,有节制,自守,端正。乐意接待远人,善于教导。
- 不因酒滋事,不打人,只要温和,不争竞,不贪财。
- 好好管理自己的家,使儿女凡事端庄顺服。(或作端端庄庄的使儿女顺服)
- 人若不知道管理自己的家,焉能照管神的教会呢。
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