1 Timothy 3:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 8:21 : 21 providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;
  • 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.
  • 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,
  • 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,
  • Titus 2:5 : 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.
  • Titus 2:8 : 8 discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.
  • 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy `are ye', because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified; 15 for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters; 16 and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;
  • Col 4:5 : 5 in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;
  • 1 Thess 4:12 : 12 that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 from all appearance of evil abstain ye;
  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 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;
  • 1 Tim 5:24-25 : 24 of certain men the sins are manifest beforehand, leading before to judgment, and certain also they follow after; 25 in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.
  • 1 Sam 2:24 : 24 Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Jehovah to transgress. --
  • Mark 4:11 : 11 and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;
  • Acts 6:3 : 3 look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,
  • Acts 10:22 : 22 And they said, `Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.'
  • Acts 22:12 : 12 and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling `there',
  • 1 Cor 5:12 : 12 for what have I also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge?
  • 3 John 1:12 : 12 to Demetrius testimony hath been given by all, and by the truth itself, and we also -- we do testify, and ye have known that our testimony is true.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Tim 3:1-6
    6 verses
    85%

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

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

    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;

  • 1 Tim 3:8-13
    6 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Titus 1:6-9
    4 verses
    74%

    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;

  • Titus 2:6-10
    5 verses
    72%

    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,

    8 discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

    9 Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

    10 not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

  • 2 Tim 2:26
    70%

    26 and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    70%

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

  • 1 Tim 5:7
    68%

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

  • 1 Tim 5:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

    19 Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.

    20 Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

  • 3 John 1:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9 I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;

    10 because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.

  • Titus 3:2
    67%

    2 of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

  • 1 Cor 10:12
    67%

    12 so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.

  • 1 Tim 6:3
    67%

    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 Tim 4:12
    67%

    12 let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

  • Titus 2:15
    67%

    15 these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

  • Titus 2:1-3
    3 verses
    66%

    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,

  • 1 Pet 5:8
    66%

    8 Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

  • 2 Cor 6:8
    66%

    8 through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true;

  • Rom 14:16
    66%

    16 Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

  • 1 Tim 5:17
    66%

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

  • 2 Cor 13:7
    66%

    7 and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;

  • Phil 2:15
    66%

    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,

  • Titus 3:11
    66%

    11 having known that he hath been subverted who `is' such, and doth sin, being self-condemned.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    66%

    4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • Titus 1:13
    66%

    13 this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

  • 1 Pet 3:16
    66%

    16 having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

  • 1 Tim 4:6
    66%

    6 These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,

  • Jude 1:24
    66%

    24 And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set `you' in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,

  • 1 Tim 4:1
    66%

    1 And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

  • 1 Cor 4:2
    66%

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

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