1 Timothy 3:7
He must also be well reported of amonge them which are with out forth lest he fall into rebuke and snare of the evyll speaker.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6He maye not be a yonge skoler lest he swell and faule into the iudgement of the evyll speaker.
Cross References
Mark 4:11And he sayde vnto them. To you it is geve to knowe the mistery of the kyngdome of God. But vnto them that are with out shall all thinges be done in similitudes:
Acts 10:22And they sayde vnto him: Cornelius the captayne a iust man and won that feareth God and of good reporte amonge all the people of the Iewes was warned by an holy angell to sende for the into his housse and to heare wordes of the.
1 Corinthians 5:12For what have I to do to iudge them which are with out? Do ye not iudge them that are with in?
2 Corinthians 6:3Let vs geve no man occasion of evyll that in oure office be founde no faute:
Colossians 4:5Walke wysely to them that are with out and redeme the tyme.
1 Thessalonians 5:22Abstayne from all suspicious thinges.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 3:2-8
Duties of Bishops and Deacons. ( a. d. 64.) 1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how… Read the whole commentary →