¹作监督的资格

¹Stedfast [is] the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

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，

²it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

³不好酒，不打人，只要温和，与人无争，不贪财，

³not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

⁴好好管理自己的家，使儿女凡事敬重顺服。

⁴his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

⁵（人若不知道怎样管理自己的家，怎能照料　神的教会呢？）

⁵(and if any one his own house [how] to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

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。

⁶not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

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。

⁷and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

⁸作执事的资格照样，执事也必须庄重，不一口两舌，不酗酒，不贪不义之财，

⁸Ministrants — in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

⁹用清洁的良心持守信仰的奥秘。

⁹having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,

¹⁰他们也必须先受考验，若没有可责之处，然后才让他们作执事。

¹⁰and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

¹¹照样，他们的妻子（“他们的妻子”可解作“女执事”）也要庄重，不说谗言，有节制，凡事忠心。

¹¹Women — in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

¹²执事只可以作一个妻子的丈夫，善于管理儿女和自己的家。

¹²Ministrants — let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

¹³那善于作执事的，就为自己得了好的位分，也因着相信基督耶稣得到大大的胆量。

¹³for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that [is] in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴伟大的敬虔奥秘我把这些事写给你，希望不久可以到你那里去；

¹⁴These things I write to thee, hoping to come unto thee soon,

¹⁵假如我来迟了，你也可以知道在　神的家里应该怎样行。这家就是永活　神的教会、真理的柱石和根基。

¹⁵and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth [thee] to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God — a pillar and foundation of the truth,

¹⁶敬虔的奥秘真伟大啊，这是众人所公认的，就是：“他在肉身显现，在圣灵里称义，被天使看见；被传于列国，被世人信服，被接到荣耀里。”

¹⁶and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety — God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!