1 This is a true saying, A man desiring the position of a Bishop has a desire for a good work.

2 The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

3 Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

4 Ruling his house well, having his children under control with all serious behaviour;

5 (For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

6 Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.

7 And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.

1 Fidinda estas la diro:Se iu celas episkopecon, tiu deziras bonan laboron.

2 Episkopo do devas esti neriproĉebla, edzo de unu edzino, sobra, moderema, ordema, gastama, instruema,

3 ne vindrinkema, ne batema; sed mildanima, ne disputema, ne monamanto;

4 reganta bone sian propran domanaron, tenante siajn gefilojn sub regado kun ĉia seriozeco

5 (sed se iu ne scias regi sian propran domon, kiel li zorgos pri la eklezio de Dio?);

6 ne novico, por ke li ne ŝvelu per fiereco kaj ne falu en la kondamnon de la diablo.

7 Krom tio li devas havi bonan ateston de la eksteruloj, por ke li ne falu en riproĉon kaj kaptilon de la diablo.