1 Timothy 3:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ 0 And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, having no crime.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THE SAYING is true and irrefutable: If any man [eagerly] seeks the office of bishop (superintendent, overseer), he desires an excellent task (work).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

Common English Bible

¹ This saying is reliable: if anyone has a goal to be a supervisor in the church, they want a good thing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ It is a faithful saying: if a man desires the episcopate, he desires a good work.

1 Timothy 3:1 Cross References

Proverbs 11:30

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the just shall deliver them.

Luke 15:10

8 I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee:

Acts 1:20

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Acts 20:28

6 And when he had said these things, kneeling down, he prayed with them all.

Romans 11:13

1 For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.

Ephesians 4:12

1 If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus:

Philippians 1:1

0 That you may approve the better things, that you may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ,

1 Thessalonians 5:14

3 And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things; that your whole spirit, and soul, and body, may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 1:15

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 4:9

Old women, as mothers: young women, as sisters, in all chastity.

2 Timothy 2:11

0 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and earth: and some indeed unto honour, but some unto dishonour.

Titus 1:7

6 They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him; being abominable, and incredulous, and to every good work reprobate.

Titus 3:8

And to Appia, our dearest sister, and to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the church which is in thy house:

Hebrews 12:15

4 And to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the sprinkling of blood which speaketh better than that of Abel.

1 Peter 2:25

Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

1 Peter 4:15

In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another, for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

1 Peter 5:2

1 To him be glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.