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1 Timothy 3

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

RelatedTitus 1:7 · Acts 20:28 · 1 Peter 5:2 · 1 Peter 2:25 · 1 Timothy 1:15 · James 5:19-20

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

RelatedTitus 1:6-9 · 2 Timothy 2:24 · Romans 12:13 · 1 Timothy 5:9 · 1 Peter 4:9 · 1 Timothy 3:10-11

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

RelatedTitus 1:7 · Titus 3:2 · Ephesians 5:18 · 1 Timothy 3:8 · Isaiah 28:7 · James 4:1

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

RelatedTitus 1:6 · Genesis 18:19 · 1 Timothy 3:12 · Titus 2:2 · Joshua 24:15 · Acts 10:2

5(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)

Related1 Samuel 3:13 · Ephesians 5:24 · Acts 20:28 · Ephesians 5:32 · 1 Timothy 3:15 · Ephesians 1:22

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

Related1 Timothy 6:4 · Hebrews 5:12-13 · 1 Peter 5:5 · 1 Peter 2:2 · Isaiah 2:12 · 2 Corinthians 12:7

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

Related2 Corinthians 8:21 · Colossians 4:5 · 2 Timothy 2:26 · Acts 6:3 · 1 Timothy 6:9 · 1 Corinthians 10:32

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

RelatedPhilippians 1:1 · Acts 6:3-6 · 1 Timothy 5:23 · 1 Timothy 3:3 · Titus 2:3 · Leviticus 10:9

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

Related1 Timothy 1:19 · 2 John 1:9-10 · 1 Timothy 1:5 · 1 Timothy 3:16

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

Related1 Timothy 5:22 · 1 Timothy 3:13 · Titus 1:6-7 · 1 Corinthians 1:8 · Acts 6:1-2 · 1 Timothy 3:2

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

RelatedTitus 2:3 · Titus 3:2 · 1 Timothy 3:2 · 2 Timothy 3:3 · 1 Peter 5:8 · Proverbs 10:18

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

Related1 Timothy 3:2 · 1 Timothy 3:4-5 · 1 Timothy 3:8 · Philippians 1:1

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

RelatedMatthew 25:21 · Hebrews 6:10 · Acts 6:8 · 2 Timothy 2:1 · Matthew 20:28 · Romans 12:7-8

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

RelatedPhilemon 1:22 · 1 Corinthians 11:34 · 1 Thessalonians 2:18 · 2 Corinthians 1:15-17 · Hebrews 13:23 · 3 John 1:14

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.

Related1 Peter 2:5 · Ephesians 2:21-22 · 1 Thessalonians 1:9 · 1 Chronicles 22:13 · Matthew 16:18-19 · 1 Kings 2:4

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.

RelatedJohn 1:14 · Hebrews 1:3 · Mark 16:19 · Romans 16:25 · 1 John 5:6-8 · 1 John 1:2

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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.