1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work. 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; 4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; 5 (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?) 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

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。