Verse List for 1 TIM 3:1

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) This is a trustworthy saying: ‘If anyone is aspiring to be an overseer, then it’s a good task that he’s desiring.’

OET-LV The saying is trustworthy:
If anyone is _aspiring to _overseeing, he _is _desiring of_a_good work.

ULT This word, is trustworthy: “If someone aspires to overseership, he desires a good work.”

UST Everyone should trust this statement: “People who want to lead the rest of God’s people are seeking to do something that is good.”

BSB & MSB [This is] a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.

BLB Trustworthy is the saying: If anyone aspires to overseership, he is desirous of a good work.

AICNT The word is trustworthy. If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, they desire a noble task.

OEB How true is this saying: “To aspire to be a supervisor in the church is to be ambitious for a noble task.”

WEBBE & WMBB This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer[fn] desires a good work.

MSG Leadership in the Church (1-7) If anyone wants to provide leadership in the church, good! But there are preconditions: A leader must be well-thought-of, committed to his wife, cool and collected, accessible, and hospitable. He must know what he’s talking about, not be overfond of wine, not pushy but gentle, not thin-skinned, not money-hungry. He must handle his own affairs well, attentive to his own children and having their respect. For if someone is unable to handle his own affairs, how can he take care of God’s church? He must not be a new believer, lest the position go to his head and the Devil trip him up. Outsiders must think well of him, or else the Devil will figure out a way to lure him into his trap.

NET This saying is trustworthy: “If someone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a good work.”

LSV The word [is] steadfast: If anyone longs for overseership, he desires a right work;

FBV This is a trustworthy statement: “If someone aspires to be an elder, this is a good work to want to do.”

TCNT This saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a good work.

T4T Anyone who aspires to be an elder in the congregation (OR, a bishop) desires a noble/honorable task.

LEB The saying is trustworthy: if anyone aspires to supervision, he desires a good work.

BBE This is a true saying, A man desiring the position of a Bishop has a desire for a good work.

Moff It is a popular saying that "whoever aspires to office is set upon an excellent occupation."

Wymth Faithful is the saying, "If any one is eager to have the oversight of a Church, he desires a noble work."

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

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

YLT Stedfast [is] the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

Drby The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.

RV Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
(Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh/seeks the office of a bishop, he desireth/desires a good work.)

SLT Faithful the word, If any strive for superintendence, he eagerly desires a good work.

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

KJB-1769 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
(This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth/desires a good work.)

KJB-1611 ¶ This is a true saying: If a man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a good worke.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps This is a faithful saying: Yf a man desire ye office of a bishop, he desireth a good worke.
(This is a faithful saying: If a man desire ye/you_all office of a bishop, he desireth/desires a good work.)

Gnva This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie worke.
(This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth/desires a worthy work.)

Cvdl This is a true sayege: Yf a ma covet ye office of a Bisshoppe, he desyreth a good worke.
(This is a true saying: If a man covet ye/you_all office of a Bisshoppe, he desireth a good work.)

TNT This is a true sayinge. Yf a man covet the office of a bysshope he desyreth a good worke.
(This is a true saying. If a man covet the office of a bysshope he desireth a good work.)

Wycl A feithful word. If ony man desirith a bishopriche, he desirith a good werk.
(A faithful word. If any man desireth/desires a bishopriche, he desireth/desires a good work.)

Luth Das ist je gewißlich wahr, so jemand ein Bischofsamt begehret, der begehret ein köstlich Werk.
(The is each/ever certainly true, so someone a Bischofsamt desired, the/of_the desired a delicious work.)

ClVg Fidelis sermo: si quis episcopatum desiderat, bonum opus desiderat.[fn]
(Faithful speech: when/but_if who/any episcopate desires, good work/need desires.)

SR-GNT Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος: “Εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, καλοῦ ἔργου ἐπιθυμεῖ.” ‡

UGNT πιστὸς ὁ λόγος: εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, καλοῦ ἔργου ἐπιθυμεῖ.

SBL-GNT Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος· εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, καλοῦ ἔργου ἐπιθυμεῖ.

RP-GNT Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος· εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, καλοῦ ἔργου ἐπιθυμεῖ.

TC-GNT Πιστὸς ὁ λόγος· εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, καλοῦ ἔργου ἐπιθυμεῖ.

Verse List for 1 TIM 3:1

Verse List for 1 TIM 3:1