1 Timothy 3:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 5 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ He must not be a new convert, or he may [develop a beclouded and stupid state of mind] as the result of pride [be blinded by conceit, and] fall into the condemnation that the devil [once] did. [Isa. 14:12-14.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Common English Bible

⁶ They shouldn’t be new believers so that they won’t become proud and fall under the devil’s spell.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ He must not be a new convert, lest, being elated by pride, he may fall under the sentence of the devil.

1 Timothy 3:6 Cross References

2 Kings 14:10

5 But the rest of the acts of Joas, which he did, and his valour, wherewith he fought against Amasias king of Juda, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

2 Chronicles 26:16

1 And Ozias the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a house apart being full of the leprosy, for which he had been cast out of the house of the Lord. And Joatham his son governed the king's house, and judged the people of the land.

2 Chronicles 32:25

0 This same Ezechias was, he that stopped the upper source of the waters of Gihon, and turned them away underneath toward the west of the city of David : in ail his works he did prosperously what he would.

Proverbs 18:12

9 A brother that is helped by his brother, is like a strong city: and judgments are like the bars of cities.

Proverbs 29:23

I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the science of saints.

Isaiah 2:12

0 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

Daniel 11:12

0 And there shall stand up in his place, one most vile, and unworthy of kingly honour: and in a few days he shall be destroyed, not in rage nor in battle.

Luke 10:18

6 But he said to him: What is written in the law? how readest thou?

1 Corinthians 3:1

0 According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

1 Corinthians 8:1

0 For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols ?

2 Corinthians 12:7

6 But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile.

Deuteronomy 17:20

For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all thy tribes, to stand and to minister to the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.

Deuteronomy 8:14

9 But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and follow strange gods, and serve and adore them: behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt utterly perish.

1 Timothy 3:7

6 And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

1 Timothy 6:4

3 I charge thee before God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate, a good confession,

2 Timothy 3:4

3 But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error.

1 Peter 2:2

1 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

1 Peter 5:5

4 Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you, who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

2 Peter 2:4

3 Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you:

Jude 1:6

5 To execute judgment upon all, and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.