1 Timothy 3:1
This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3 not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
- KJV
- This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
- WEB
- This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
- ASV
- Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
- DARBY
- The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.
- BLB
- Trustworthy [is] the word: If anyone aspires to overseership, he is desirous of a good work.
- ÅB
- Det er et troverdig ord: Om noen attrår et tilsyns-embede, da har han lyst til en god gjerning.
- OTB
- Dette ordet er troverdig: om noen trakter etter tilsynsvervet, så ønsker han en edel gjerning.
- B1930
- Det er et troverdig ord: Om nogen attrår et tilsyns-embede, da har han lyst til en god gjerning.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Titus 1:7
As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.
Read in contextActs 20:28
Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
Read in context1 Peter 5:2
Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
Read in context1 Peter 2:25
For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Read in contextJames 5:19–20
My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
Read in context1 Timothy 1:15
This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
Read in contextPhilippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:
Read in contextLuke 15:10
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
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