1 The word {is} faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.2 The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;3 not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,4 conducting his own house well, having {his} children in subjection with all gravity;5 (but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)6 not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into {the} fault of the devil.7 But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and {the} snare of the devil.8 Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.10 And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge {against them}.11 {The} women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.12 Let {the} ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting {their} children and their own houses well:13 for those who shall have ministered well obtain for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in faith which {is} in Christ Jesus.14 These things I write to thee, hoping to come to thee more quickly;15 but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God's house, which is {the} assembly of {the} living God, {the} pillar and base of the truth.16 And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in {the} Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among {the} nations, has been believed on in {the} world, has been received up in glory.

1 He pono te korero, Ki te hiahia tetahi ki te mahi pihopa, e hiahia ana ia ki te mahi pai.2 Na, ko te tikanga tenei, kia kaua te pihopa e ekengia e te kupu, he tahu no te wahine kotahi, kia ngawari, kia whai whakaaro, kia marama ana tikanga, kia atawhai ki nga manuhiri, kia whai ngakau ki te whakaako:3 Kia kaua e kakai waina, kia kaua e patu; engari kia ngawari, kaua e totohe, kaua e matenui ki te moni;4 Kai pai tana tohutohu i tona whare; e mea ana i ana tamariki kia ngohengohe ki a ia, kia nui te mahara:5 Ki te kore hoki tetahi tangata e matau ki te tohutohu i tona whare ake, me pehea ka tiaki ai ia i te hahi a te Atua?6 Kauaka i te tauhou, kei whakakake, a ka tau to te rewera he ki a ia.7 A kia pai te korero mona a te hunga o waho; kei taka ia ki te whakahawea, ki roto hoki ki te mahanga a te rewera.8 Waihoki ko nga rikona kia tu kaumatua, kaua e arero rua, kaua e matenui ki te waina, kaua e whai ki te taonga paruparu;9 Kia ma o ratou hinengaro e mau ai ki te mea ngaro o te whakapono.10 Na, kia matua whakamatautauria enei; katahi ka tuku ai kia mahi i a te rikona mahi, ki te kore he whakahe mo ratou.11 Ko nga wahine hoki kia ahua kaumatua, kaua e ngautuara, kia whai mahara, kia pono i nga mea katoa.12 Ko nga rikona, kia kotahi te hoa wahine; kia pai te tohutohu i a ratou tamariki, i o ratou whare ake ano hoki.13 Ki te pai hoki ta ratou mahi rikona, ka whiwhi ratou ki te turanga pai mo ratou, ka nui hoki to ratou maia i runga i te whakapono ki a Karaiti Ihu.14 He tuhituhi atu tenei naku i enei mea ki a koe, e mea ana hoki tera ahau e haere wawe atu ki a koe:15 Ki te roa ia ahau, kia matau ai koe ki te tikanga mo tau mahi i roto i te whare o te Atua, ko te hahi nei ia a te Atua ora, ko te pou, ko te turanga o te pono.16 Na, kahore rawa e tautohetia te nui o te mea ngaro e karakiatia nei: Ko ia i whakakitea mai i roto i te kikokiko, he mea whakatika na te Wairua, i kitea e nga anahera, i kauwhautia nei i roto i nga tauiwi, i whakaponohia nei i te ao, i tangohia atu ki te kororia.