1 Timothy 3:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ νεόφυτον, ἵνα μὴ τυφωθεὶς εἰς κρίμα ἐμπέσῃ τοῦ διαβόλου.

Transliteration

Mē neophyton, hina mē typhōtheis into krima empesē tou diabolou.

Grammar Details

• *Mē*: negative particle - not
• *neophyton*: adjective, accusative, masculine, singular - newly planted/new convert
• *hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *typhōtheis*: participle, aorist, passive, nominative, masculine, singular - having been puffed up/being conceited
• *krima*: noun, accusative, neuter, singular - judgment/condemnation
• *empesē*: verb, aorist, active, subjunctive, 3rd person, singular - might fall into
• *tou*: article, genitive, masculine, singular - of the
• *diabolou*: noun, genitive, masculine, singular - devil/slanderer

Word Meanings

• *neophyton*: newly planted/new convert/novice/recent convert
• *typhōtheis*: having been puffed up/being conceited/blinded with pride
• *krima*: judgment/condemnation/sentence
• *empesē*: might fall into/fall under
• *diabolou*: devil/slanderer/accuser

Referenced Verses

• 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
• 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
• Heb 5:12-13 : 12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
• 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
• Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
• Deut 8:14 : 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
• Deut 17:20 : 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
• 2 Kgs 14:10 : 10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
• 2 Chr 26:16 : 16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
• 2 Chr 32:25 : 25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
• Prov 16:18-19 : 18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. 19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
• Prov 18:12 : 12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
• Prov 29:23 : 23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
• Isa 2:12 : 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
• Isa 14:12-14 : 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
• Luke 10:18 : 18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
• 1 Cor 3:1 : 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
• 1 Cor 4:6-8 : 6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. 7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
• 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
• 2 Cor 12:7 : 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
• 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;