Verse 1
1 Timothy 3:1
Darby Translation
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The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.
Original Language Text
greek
Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος· εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, καλοῦ ἔργου ἐπιθυμεῖ.
English Translation
The saying is trustworthy: if anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a good work.
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Chapter 3 Context
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The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.
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The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable...
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not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of mo...
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conducting his own house well, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;
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(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of Go...
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not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into [the] fault of the devil.
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But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall n...
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Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by ba...
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holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
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And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge [against them].
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[The] women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
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Let [the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting [their] children and their own houses well:
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for those who shall have ministered well obtain for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in f...
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These things I write to thee, hoping to come to thee more quickly;
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but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God (Elohim)'s ho...
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And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God (Elohim) has been manifested in flesh, has been j...
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