¹This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer or, superintendents, or bishops , he desires a good work.

¹Resnica je beseda: Če kdo išče škofovske službe, želi lepega dela.

²The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

²Škof torej treba, da je brez oponosa, ene žene mož, trezen, zmeren, spodoben, gostoljuben, dober učitelj;

³not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

³ne pijanec, ne pretepač, ampak krotak, ne prepirljiv, ne denarja lakomen;

⁴one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

⁴svoji hiši dober gospodar, otroke strahujoč, da so pokorni, z vso resnobo

⁵(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

⁵(če pa kdo svoji hiši ne zna gospodariti, kako bo skrbel za cerkev Božjo?)

⁶not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

⁶ne novinec, da napihnjen ne pade v obsodbo hudičevo.

⁷Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

⁷Treba pa tudi, da ima dobro pričevanje od teh, ki so zunaj, da ne pade v očitanje in past hudičevo.

⁸ Servants or, Deacons. , in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

⁸Diakoni [T. j. pomočniki, strežniki.] istotako treba, da so resnobni, ne dvojezični, ne mnogemu vinu vdani, ne grdega dobička željni;

⁹holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

⁹ki hranijo skrivnost vere v čisti vesti.

¹⁰Let them also first be tested; then let them serve or, serve as deacons if they are blameless.

¹⁰A tudi ti naj se najprej preizkusijo; potem naj služijo kot diakoni, ako so brez graje.

¹¹Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

¹¹Žene istotako, da so resnobne, ne obrekljive, trezne, zveste v vsem.

¹²Let servants or, deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

¹²Diakoni naj bodo ene žene možje, otrokom in svojim hišam dobri gospodarji.

¹³For those who have served well or, served well as deacons gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

¹³Kateri so namreč dobro opravljali diakonsko službo, si pridobé lepo stopnjo in veliko srčnost v veri, ki je v Kristusu Jezusu.

¹⁴These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;

¹⁴To ti pišem, upajoč, da skoro pridem k tebi;

¹⁵but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

¹⁵ako se pa zamudim, da veš, kako se je treba vesti v hiši Božji, ki je cerkev Boga živega, stolp in podstavek resnice.In kakor vsi priznavamo, velika [Ali: In brez vsega ugovora velika.] je skrivnost pobožnosti: on, ki je bil razodet v mesu, je bil opravičen v duhu, prikazal se je angelom, je bil oznanjevan poganom, verovalo se mu je na svetu, gori je bil vzet v slavi.

¹⁶Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

¹⁶In kakor vsi priznavamo, velika [Ali: In brez vsega ugovora velika.] je skrivnost pobožnosti: on, ki je bil razodet v mesu, je bil opravičen v duhu, prikazal se je angelom, je bil oznanjevan poganom, verovalo se mu je na svetu, gori je bil vzet v slavi.