1 Timothy 3
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World English Bible
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
1「人若想要得監督的職分，就是羨慕善工。」這話是可信的。
2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
2作監督的，必須無可指責，只作一個婦人的丈夫，有節制，自守，端正，樂意接待遠人，善於教導；
3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
3不因酒滋事，不打人，只要溫和，不爭競，不貪財；
4one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
4好好管理自己的家，使兒女凡事端莊順服。
5(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
5人若不知道管理自己的家，焉能照管上帝的教會呢？
6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
6初入教的不可作監督，恐怕他自高自大，就落在魔鬼 所受 的刑罰裏。
7Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
7監督也必須在教外有好名聲，恐怕被人毀謗，落在魔鬼的網羅裏。
8Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
8作執事的，也是如此：必須端莊，不一口兩舌，不好喝酒，不貪不義之財；
9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
9要存清潔的良心，固守真道的奧祕。
10Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.
10這等人也要先受試驗，若沒有可責之處，然後叫他們作執事。
11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
11女執事也是如此：必須端莊，不說讒言，有節制，凡事忠心。
12Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
12執事只要作一個婦人的丈夫，好好管理兒女和自己的家。
13For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
13因為善作執事的，自己就得到美好的地步，並且在基督耶穌裏的真道上大有膽量。
14These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly,
14我指望快到你那裏去，所以先將這些事寫給你。
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.
15倘若我耽延日久，你也可以知道在上帝的家中當怎樣行。這家就是永生上帝的教會，真理的柱石和根基。
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.
16大哉，敬虔的奧祕，無人不以為然！ 就是上帝在肉身顯現， 被聖靈稱義， 被天使看見， 被傳於外邦， 被世人信服， 被接在榮耀裏。
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