They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
1 Timothy 3:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Deacons in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In like manner the deacons [must be] worthy of respect, not shifty and double-talkers but sincere in what they say, not given to much wine, not greedy for base gain [craving wealth and resorting to ignoble and dishonest methods of getting it]. American Standard Version (1901) Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; Common English Bible In the same way, servants in the church should be dignified, not two-faced, heavy drinkers, or greedy for money. Catholic Public Domain Version Similarly, deacons must be chaste, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not pursuing tainted profit, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Deacons in like manner chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre: |
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness: Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness; Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, soberminded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not selfwilled, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;
that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanour, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according unto God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;