1 "如果有人渴慕监督的职分， 他就是爱慕善工。"这话是可信的。

2 所以作监督的， 必须无可指摘， 只作一个妻子的丈夫， 有节制， 自律， 庄重， 乐意接待客旅， 善于教导，

3 不好酒， 不打人， 只要温和， 与人无争， 不贪财，

4 好好管理自己的家， 使儿女凡事敬重顺服。

5 （人若不知道怎样管理自己的家， 怎能照料 神的教会呢？）

6 初信主的不可作监督， 恐怕他骄傲， 就落在魔鬼所受的刑罚里。

7 作监督的也必须在教外有好声誉， 免得他被人毁谤， 就落在魔鬼的陷阱里。

1 Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money; 4 one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) 6 not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.