Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
1 Timothy 3:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In like manner the deacons [must be] worthy of respect, not shifty and double-talkers but sincere in what they say, not given to much wine, not greedy for base gain [craving wealth and resorting to ignoble and dishonest methods of getting it]. American Standard Version (1901) Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; Common English Bible In the same way, servants in the church should be dignified, not two-faced, heavy drinkers, or greedy for money. Catholic Public Domain Version Similarly, deacons must be chaste, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not pursuing tainted profit, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Deacons in like manner chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre: |
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Neither shall any of the Kohanim drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
*Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:
*Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.* *The poison of vipers is under their lips;*
Sha'ul and Timothy, servants of Yeshua the Messiah; To all the holy ones in Messiah Yeshua who are at Philippi, with the overseers:
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.
For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;