1 Timothy 3:6
4 An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
5 For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.
7 Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.
8 Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.
- KJV
- Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
- WEB
- not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
- ASV
- not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
- DARBY
- not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into [the] fault of the devil.
- BLB
- not a novice, lest, having been puffed up, he might fall into the judgment of the devil.
- ÅB
- ikke en nyomvendt, for at han ikke skal bli oppblåst og falle i djevelens dom.
- OTB
- og ikke en nyomvendt, for at han ikke skal bli hovmodig og falle under djevelens dom.
- B1930
- ikke en nyomvendt, forat han ikke skal bli opblåst og falle i djevelens dom.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Timothy 6:4
he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,
Read in contextHebrews 5:12–13
Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!
Read in context1 Peter 5:5
Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Read in context1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:1
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
Read in context2 Corinthians 12:7
or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
Read in contextIsaiah 14:12–14
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
Read in contextIsaiah 2:12
For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—
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