1 Timothy 3:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Not a neophyte: lest being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

1 Timothy 3:6 Cross References

2 Kings 14:10

You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he had become strong he grew proud, to his destruction. For he acted unfaithfully toward the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to make offering on the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 32:25

But Hezekiah did not respond according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction one’s heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

Proverbs 29:23

A person’s pride will bring humiliation, but one who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Isaiah 2:12

For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high;

Daniel 11:12

When the multitude has been carried off, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall overthrow tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.

Luke 10:18

He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.

1 Corinthians 3:1

And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people but rather as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 Corinthians 12:7

even considering the exceptional character of the revelations. Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated.

Deuteronomy 17:20

neither exalting himself above other members of the community nor turning aside from the commandment, either to the right or to the left, so that he and his descendants may reign long over his kingdom in Israel.

Deuteronomy 8:14

then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,

1 Timothy 3:7

Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace and the snare of the devil.

1 Timothy 6:4

is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

1 Peter 2:2

Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation—

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.