1 Timothy 3:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Women likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ [The] women likewise must be worthy of respect and serious, not gossipers, but temperate and self-controlled, [thoroughly] trustworthy in all things.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Common English Bible

¹¹ In the same way, women who are servants in the church should be dignified and not gossip. They should be sober and faithful in everything they do.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Similarly, the women must be chaste, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 3:11 Cross References

Titus 2:3

Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or enslaved to much wine; they are to teach what is good,

Titus 3:2

to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone.

1 Timothy 3:2

Now a bishop must be above reproach, married only once, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher,

1 Peter 5:8

Discipline yourselves; keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.

2 Timothy 3:3

unfeeling, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good,

Proverbs 10:18

Lying lips conceal hatred, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

2 Timothy 4:5

As for you, be sober in everything, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.

1 Timothy 6:2

Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful to them on the ground that they are brothers and sisters; rather, they must serve them all the more, since those who benefit by their service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these duties.

1 Timothy 1:12

I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he considered me faithful and appointed me to his service,

John 6:70

Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”

Matthew 4:1

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested by the devil.

Ezekiel 44:22

They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman but only a virgin of the stock of the house of Israel or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

Jeremiah 9:4

Beware of your neighbors, and put no trust in any of your kin, for all your kin are supplanters, and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.

Proverbs 25:13

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest are faithful messengers to those who send them; they refresh the spirit of their masters.

Psalm 101:5

One who secretly slanders a neighbor I will destroy. A haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not tolerate.

Psalm 50:20

You sit and speak against your kin; you slander your own mother’s child.

Psalm 15:3

who do not slander with their tongue and do no evil to their friends nor heap shame upon their neighbors;

Leviticus 21:7

They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For they are holy to their God,

Romans 1:29

They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,