1 Timothy 3:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 12:13 : 13 to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,
  • Titus 1:6-9 : 6 if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate -- 7 for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled, 9 holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 hospitable to one another, without murmuring;
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,
  • 1 Tim 3:10-11 : 10 and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable. 11 Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 Blind `are' his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them `are' dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Titus 1:5-8
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    5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

    6 if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

    7 for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

    8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

  • 1 Tim 3:1
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    1 Stedfast `is' the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

  • 1 Tim 3:3-13
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    3 not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

    4 his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

    5 (and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

    6 not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

    7 and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

    8 Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

    9 having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,

    10 and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

    11 Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

    12 Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

    13 for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that `is' in Christ Jesus.

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    1 And thou -- be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;

    2 aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

    3 aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

    4 that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children,

    5 sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

    6 The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;

    7 concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

  • 1 Tim 5:9-10
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    9 A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

    10 in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

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    2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

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    7 and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

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    14 I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

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    2 and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

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    24 and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

  • Eph 5:27
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    27 that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

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    19 the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

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    3 in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,

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    17 The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

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    1 In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

    2 having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

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    3 if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,

  • 1 Cor 7:32-33
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    32 And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

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    8 And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';

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