1 Timothy 3:1

Coverdale Bible (1535)

This is a true sayege: Yf a ma covet ye office of a Bisshoppe, he desyreth a good worke.

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  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take hede therfore vnto youre selues, and to all the flocke, amonge the which the holy goost hath set you to be Bishoppes, to fede the congregacion of God, which he hath purchaced thorow his owne bloude.
  • 1 Tim 1:15 : 15 For this is a true sayenge, and by all meanes worthy to be receaued, that Christ Iesus came in to ye worlde to saue synners, of whom I am chefe.
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Fede Christes flocke which is amonge you, and take the ouersighte of the, not as though ye were copelled therto, but wyllingly: not for the desyre of filthye lucre, but of a good mynde:
  • Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timotheus the seruauntes of Iesu Christ. Vnto all the sayntes in Iesu Christ, which are at Philippos, with the Bisshoppes and mynisters.
  • Titus 1:7 : 7 For a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, as the stewarde of God: not wylfull, not angrye, not geuen vnto moch wyne, no fyghter, not gredye of filthye lucre:
  • 1 Pet 2:25 : 25 For ye were as shepe goinge astraye, but now are ye turned vnto the shepherde and Bisshoppe of youre soules.
  • Acts 1:20 : 20 For it is wrytten in the boke of psalmes: His habitacion be voyde, and noman be dwellinge therin. And: His bisshoprike another take.
  • Jas 5:19-20 : 19 Brethren, yf eny of you erre fro the trueth and another conuert him, 20 let ye same knowe that he which conuerted the synner from goynge astraye out off his waye, shal saue a soule fro death, and shal hyde the multitude of synnes.
  • 1 Pet 4:15 : 15 But se that none of you suffre as a murthurer, or as a thefe, or as an euell doer, or as a busy body in other mens matters.
  • Titus 3:8 : 8 This is a true sayege. Of these thinges wolde I that thou shuldest speake earnestly, that they which are become beleuers in God, might be diligent to excell in good workes: for these thinges are good and profitable vnto me.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 ad loke well, that no ma be destitute of the grace of God, lest there sprynge vp eny bytter rote, and cause disquyetnes, and therby many be defyled:
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 We desyre you brethre, warne them that are vnruly, coforte the feble mynded, forbeare the weake, be pacient towarde all men.
  • 1 Tim 3:2-7 : 2 But a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, the hussbade of one wife, sober, discrete, manerly, harberous, apte to teach: 3 Not geuen to moch wyne, no fighter, not geuen to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorrynge stryfe, abhorrynge couetousnes: 4 & one that ruleth his awne house honestly, hauynge obedient children with all honestye. 5 (But yf a man can not rule his owne house, how shal he care for the congregacion of God?) 6 He maye not be a yoge scolar, lest he be puft vp, and fall in to the iudgment of ye euell speaker. 7 He must also haue a good reporte of them which are without, lest he fall in to the rebuke and snare of the euell speaker.
  • 1 Tim 4:9 : 9 This is a sure sayenge, & of all partes worthy to be receaued.
  • 2 Tim 2:11 : 11 This is a true sayenge: Yf we be deed wt him, we shal lyue with him also:
  • Rom 11:13 : 13 I speake vnto you Heythen: for in as moch as I am ye Apostle of the Heythen, I wil prayse myne office,
  • Eph 4:12 : 12 wherby the sayntes mighte be coupled together thorow comen seruyce to the edifienge of ye body of Christ,
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The frute of the rightuous is as the tre of life, a wyse man also wynneth mens soules.
  • Luke 15:10 : 10 Euen so (I tell you) shal there be ioye before the angels of God, ouer one synner yt doth pennaunce.

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    2But a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, the hussbade of one wife, sober, discrete, manerly, harberous, apte to teach:

    3Not geuen to moch wyne, no fighter, not geuen to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorrynge stryfe, abhorrynge couetousnes:

    4& one that ruleth his awne house honestly, hauynge obedient children with all honestye.

    5(But yf a man can not rule his owne house, how shal he care for the congregacion of God?)

    6He maye not be a yoge scolar, lest he be puft vp, and fall in to the iudgment of ye euell speaker.

    7He must also haue a good reporte of them which are without, lest he fall in to the rebuke and snare of the euell speaker.

    8Likewyse must the mynisters be honest, not double tonged, not geuen to moch wyne, nether vnto fylthie lucre,

    9but hauynge the mystery of faith in pure conscience.

    10And let them first be proued, and then let them mynister, yf they be blamelesse.

    11Euen so must their wyues be honest, not euell speakers, but sober and faithfull in all thinges.

    12Let the mynisters be, euery one the hussbade of one wyfe, and soch as rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.

    13For they that mynister well, get them selues a good degree and greate libertye in the faith which is in Christ Iesu.

    14These thinges wryte I vnto the, trustinge shortly to come vnto the:

    15but yf I tary loge, that then thou mayest yet haue knowlege, how thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in Gods house, which is the congregacion of the lyuynge God, the piler and grounde of trueth:

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    5For this cause left I the in Creta, that thou shuldest perfourme that which was lackynge, and shuldest ordeyne Elders in euery cite, as I appoynted ye.

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    7For a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, as the stewarde of God: not wylfull, not angrye, not geuen vnto moch wyne, no fyghter, not gredye of filthye lucre:

    8but harbarous, one that loueth goodnes, sober mynded, righteous, holy, temperate,

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    8This is a true sayege. Of these thinges wolde I that thou shuldest speake earnestly, that they which are become beleuers in God, might be diligent to excell in good workes: for these thinges are good and profitable vnto me.

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    1Let euery man this wyse esteme vs, euen for the mynisters of Christ, and stewardes of the secretes of God.

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    1The Elders which are amonge you I exhorte, which am also an Elder, and a witnes off the affliccions in Christ, and partaker of the glory that shalbe opened.

    2Fede Christes flocke which is amonge you, and take the ouersighte of the, not as though ye were copelled therto, but wyllingly: not for the desyre of filthye lucre, but of a good mynde:

    3not as though ye were lordes ouer the parishes, but that ye be an ensample to the flocke:

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    16Yf eny man or woman that beleueth haue wedowes, let them make prouysion for the, and let not the congregacion be charged: that they which are righte wedowes, maye haue ynough.

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    7And these thinges commaunde, that they maye be without blame.

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    10and well reported of in good workes, yf she haue brought vp children well, yf she haue bene harberous, yf she haue wasshed the sayntes fete, yf she haue mynistred vnto the which were in aduersite, yf she were continually geuen to all maner of good workes.

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