1Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task.


In Context

1 Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task.

2 Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

1st Timothy 3:1 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:1This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:1A faithful saying: if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:1Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:1The word is faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:1Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:1This is a true saying, If a man desireth the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:1This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:1Stedfast is the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:1This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desires a good work.