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

³ not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Not given to wine, not combative but gentle and considerate, not quarrelsome but forbearing and peaceable, and not a lover of money [insatiable for wealth and ready to obtain it by questionable means].

American Standard Version (1901)

³ no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

Common English Bible

³ They shouldn’t be addicted to alcohol or be a bully. Instead, they should be gentle, peaceable, and not greedy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ not a drunkard, not combative but restrained, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

1 Timothy 3:3 Cross References

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the end of all who are greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Proverbs 15:27

Those greedy for unjust gain make trouble for their households, but those who hate bribes will live.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; the patient in spirit are better than the proud in spirit.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, at the head of the fertile valley, those overcome with wine!

Isaiah 28:7

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink; they are confused with wine; they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in giving judgment.

Jeremiah 6:13

For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

Ezekiel 44:21

No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.

Leviticus 10:9

“Drink no wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons, when you enter the tent of meeting, that you may not die; it is a statute forever throughout your generations.

Micah 2:11

If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” such a one would be the preacher for this people!

Micah 3:11

Its rulers give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets give oracles for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Surely the Lord is with us! No harm shall come upon us.”

Micah 3:5

Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat but declare war against those who put nothing into their mouths.

Malachi 1:10

Oh, that someone among you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hands.

Matthew 21:13

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of robbers.”

Acts 20:33

I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.

Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.

1 Timothy 3:8

Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not indulging in much wine, not greedy for money;

2 Timothy 3:2

For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Titus 1:11

they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach.

Titus 1:7

For a bishop, as God’s steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or addicted to wine or violent or greedy for gain,

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.

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”

James 4:1

Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?

1 Peter 5:2

to tend the flock of God that is in your charge, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion but willingly, as God would have you do it, not for sordid gain but eagerly.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion.

Revelation 1:9

I, John, your brother who share with you the persecution and the kingdom and the endurance in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

1 Samuel 8:3

Yet his sons did not follow in his ways but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.