1 Timothy

监督的资格

1「人若想要得监督的职分，就是羡慕善工。」这话是可信的。

2作监督的，必须无可指责，只作一个妇人的丈夫，有节制，自守，端正，乐意接待远人，善于教导；

3不因酒滋事，不打人，只要温和，不争竞，不贪财；

4好好管理自己的家，使儿女凡事端庄顺服。

5人若不知道管理自己的家，焉能照管 神的教会呢？

6初入教的不可作监督，恐怕他自高自大，就落在魔鬼所受的刑罚里。

7监督也必须在教外有好名声，恐怕被人毁谤，落在魔鬼的网罗里。

执事的资格

8作执事的，也是如此：必须端庄，不一口两舌，不好喝酒，不贪不义之财；

9要存清洁的良心，固守真道的奥秘。

10这等人也要先受试验，若没有可责之处，然后叫他们作执事。

11女执事也是如此：必须端庄，不说谗言，有节制，凡事忠心。

12执事只要作一个妇人的丈夫，好好管理儿女和自己的家。

13因为善作执事的，自己就得到美好的地步，并且在基督耶稣里的真道上大有胆量。

敬虔的奥秘

14我指望快到你那里去，所以先将这些事写给你。

15倘若我耽延日久，你也可以知道在 神的家中当怎样行。这家就是永生 神的教会，真理的柱石和根基。

16大哉，敬虔的奥秘，无人不以为然！ 就是 神在肉身显现， 被圣灵称义， 被天使看见， 被传于外邦， 被世人信服， 被接在荣耀里。

1This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseerdesires a good work.

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

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

4one 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?)

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

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

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

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

10Let them also first be tested; then let them serveif they are blameless.

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

12Let servantsbe husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

13For those who have served wellgain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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

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.

16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great:Godwas 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.