1 Timothy 3:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Δεῖ οὖν τὸν ἐπίσκοπον ἀνεπίληπτον εἶναι, μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα, νηφάλιον, σώφρονα, κόσμιον, φιλόξενον, διδακτικόν·

Transliteration

Dei oun the episkopon anepilēpton einai, mias gynaikos andra, nēphalion, sōphrona, kosmion, philoxenon, didaktikon;

Grammar Details

*Dei*: verb, present, active, indicative, 3rd person, singular, impersonal - it is necessary
*oun*: conjunction - therefore/then
*episkopon*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - overseer/bishop
*anepilēpton*: adjective, accusative, masculine, singular - above reproach/blameless
*einai*: verb, present, active, infinitive - to be
*mias*: adjective, genitive, feminine, singular - one/single
*gynaikos*: noun, genitive, feminine, singular - woman/wife
*andra*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - man/husband
*nēphalion*: adjective, accusative, masculine, singular - temperate/sober
*sōphrona*: adjective, accusative, masculine, singular - self-controlled/prudent
*kosmion*: adjective, accusative, masculine, singular - respectable/orderly
*philoxenon*: adjective, accusative, masculine, singular - hospitable/lover of strangers
*didaktikon*: adjective, accusative, masculine, singular - able to teach

Word Meanings

*Dei*: it is necessary/must/ought
*episkopon*: overseer/bishop/superintendent
*anepilēpton*: above reproach/blameless/irreproachable
*mias gynaikos andra*: husband of one wife/one-woman man
*nēphalion*: temperate/sober/clear-headed
*sōphrona*: self-controlled/prudent/of sound mind
*kosmion*: respectable/orderly/well-behaved
*philoxenon*: hospitable/lover of strangers/generous to guests
*didaktikon*: able to teach/apt to teach/skilled in teaching

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Rom 12:13 : 13 communicating to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.
2 Tim 2:24 : 24 And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,
Titus 1:6-9 : 6 if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly. 7 For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; 8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled; 9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.
1 Pet 4:9 : 9 using hospitality one to another without murmuring:
1 Tim 5:9 : 9 Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man,
1 Tim 3:10-11 : 10 And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless. 11 Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
Heb 13:2 : 2 {G1950} Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby {G1223} some have entertained angels unawares.
1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be watchful: {G3754} your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
Titus 2:2 : 2 that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:
Heb 3:14 : 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
Phil 2:15 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,
Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
1 Tim 4:3 : 3 forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

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