1 Timothy 3:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    But if I delay, you will know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But{G1161} if{G1437} I tarry long{G1019}{(G5725)}, that{G2443} thou mayest know{G1492}{(G5762)} how{G4459} thou oughtest{G1163}{(G5748)} to behave thyself{G390}{(G5745)} in{G1722} the house{G3624} of God{G2316}, which{G3748} is{G2076}{(G5748)} the church{G1577} of the living{G2198}{(G5723)} God{G2316}, the pillar{G4769} and{G2532} ground{G1477} of the truth{G225}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    but and yf I tarie longe yt then thou mayst yet have knowledge how thou oughtest to behave thy silfe in the housse of God which is the congregacion of the livinge God the pillar and grounde of trueth.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    but yf I tary loge, that then thou mayest yet haue knowlege, how thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in Gods house, which is the congregacion of the lyuynge God, the piler and grounde of trueth:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    But if I tary long, that thou maist yet know, how thou oughtest to behaue thy self in ye house of God, which is the Church of the liuing God, the pillar and ground of trueth.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But yf I tary long, that thou mayest knowe howe thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in the house of God, whiche is the Church of the lyuyng God, the pyller and grounde of trueth.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth `thee' to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, because it is the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Matt 16:16 : 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
  • 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
  • Matt 18:18 : 18 Truly I say to you, Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
  • Gal 2:9 : 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
  • Gal 3:1 : 1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been clearly set forth, crucified among you?
  • Eph 2:21-22 : 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together grows to a holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.
  • Eph 4:21 : 21 If indeed you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
  • Col 1:5 : 5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
  • 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
  • 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?
  • 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  • John 6:69 : 69 And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the Son of the living God.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father except through me.
  • John 18:37 : 37 Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say correctly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.
  • Acts 1:2 : 2 Until the day when He was taken up, after He had through the Holy Spirit given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen:
  • Acts 14:15 : 15 And saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men with similar passions as you and preach to you that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things in them,
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much in every way: chiefly, because to them were entrusted the oracles of God.
  • Rom 9:26 : 26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there they shall be called the children of the living God.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 Forasmuch as you are clearly shown to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the heart.
  • 2 Cor 6:7 : 7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
  • Deut 5:26 : 26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
  • Deut 31:23 : 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.
  • Josh 3:10 : 10 And Joshua said, By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
  • 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 David spoke to the men standing by him, asking, What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?
  • 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.
  • 1 Kgs 2:2 : 2 I go the way of all the earth: be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
  • 1 Kgs 2:4 : 4 That the Lord may continue His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 19:4 : 4 It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God; and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard: therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that are left.
  • 1 Chr 22:13 : 13 Then you shall prosper, if you take heed to fulfill the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; do not fear, nor be dismayed.
  • 1 Chr 28:9-9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. 10 Take heed now; for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it. 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the buildings thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner rooms thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat, 12 And the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things: 13 Also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the articles of service in the house of the LORD. 14 He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all kinds of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service: 15 Even the weight for the lampstands of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every lampstand, and for its lamps: and for the lampstands of silver by weight, both for the lampstand and also for its lamps, according to the use of every lampstand. 16 And by weight he gave gold for the tables of the showbread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver: 17 Also pure gold for the forks, bowls, and cups: and for the golden basins he gave gold by weight for every basin; and likewise silver by weight for every basin of silver: 18 And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubim, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 19 All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern. 20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you, until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD. 21 And, behold, the divisions of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with you for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with you for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the leaders and all the people will be wholly at your command.
  • Ps 42:2 : 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
  • Jer 1:18 : 18 For behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to endure his indignation.
  • Jer 23:36 : 36 And the burden of the LORD you shall mention no more; for every man's word shall be his burden, for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
  • Dan 6:26 : 26 I make a decree, that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be until the end.
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see: to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
  • 2 Tim 2:20 : 20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.
  • Heb 3:2-6 : 2 Who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. 3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone; but He who built all things is God. 5 And Moses truly was faithful in all His house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken later; 6 But Christ as a Son over His own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm until the end.
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 Beware, brothers and sisters, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
  • Matt 16:18-19 : 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
  • Rev 7:2 : 2 And I saw another angel rising from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,

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