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


In Context

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

2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

1 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:1Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task.

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 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.