Bible Reading for November 2 and 3
World English Bible
Nov.
2
Isaiah
25-28
Isa
25:1 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your
name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in
complete faithfulness and truth.
Isa
25:2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a
ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
Isa
25:3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome
nations will fear you.
Isa
25:4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the
needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the
heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the
wall.
Isa
25:5 As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of
strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the
dreaded ones will be brought low.
Isa
25:6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a
feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of
marrow, of well refined choice wines.
Isa
25:7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering
that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all
nations.
Isa
25:8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe
away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his
people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
Isa
25:9 It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We
have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have
waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!"
Isa
25:10 For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest. Moab will
be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the
water of the dunghill.
Isa
25:11 He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims
spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together
with the craft of his hands.
Isa
25:12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low,
and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Isa
26:1 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We
have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
Isa
26:2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one
which keeps faith.
Isa
26:3 You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace,
because he trusts in you.
Isa
26:4 Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting
Rock.
Isa
26:5 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty
city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it
even to the dust.
Isa
26:6 The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and
the steps of the needy."
Isa
26:7 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make
the path of the righteous level.
Isa
26:8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for
you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
Isa
26:9 With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my
spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments
are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa
26:10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn
righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully,
and will not see Yahweh's majesty.
Isa
26:11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they
will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire
will consume your adversaries.
Isa
26:12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also worked
all our works for us.
Isa
26:13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over
us, but by you only will we make mention of your name.
Isa
26:14 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise.
Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory
of them to perish.
Isa
26:15 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased
the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of
the land.
Isa
26:16 Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a
prayer when your chastening was on them.
Isa
26:17 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her
delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been
before you, Yahweh.
Isa
26:18 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth,
it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the
earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Isa
26:19 Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and
sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of
herbs, and the earth will cast forth the dead.
Isa
26:20 Come, my people, enter into your chambers, and shut your doors
behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation
is past.
Isa
26:21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will
disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
Isa
27:1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword
will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted
serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
Isa
27:2 In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard!
Isa
27:3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest
anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
Isa
27:4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I
would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them
together.
Isa
27:5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make
peace with me. Let him make peace with me."
Isa
27:6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and
bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
Isa
27:7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are
they killed like those who killed them were killed?
Isa
27:8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He
has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
Isa
27:9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and
this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the
stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so
that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.
Isa
27:10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and
forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he
will lie down, and consume its branches.
Isa
27:11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The
women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no
understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on
them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Isa
27:12 It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the
flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will
be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
Isa
27:13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown;
and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those
who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will
worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Isa
28:1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to
the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the
fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
Isa
28:2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of
hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters
overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.
Isa
28:3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden
under foot.
Isa
28:4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head
of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the
summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
Isa
28:5 In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory, and
a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;
Isa
28:6 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and
strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Isa
28:7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The
priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up
by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They
stumble in judgment.
Isa
28:8 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and
filthiness.
Isa
28:9 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the
message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the
breasts?
Isa
28:10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on
line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
Isa
28:11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in
another language;
Isa
28:12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to
weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would
not hear.
Isa
28:13 Therefore the word of Yahweh will be to them precept on
precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a
little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken,
be snared, and be taken.
Isa
28:14 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule
this people in Jerusalem:
Isa
28:15 "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with
death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing
scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies
our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.' "
Isa
28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in
Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone
of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
Isa
28:17 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the
plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the
waters will overflow the hiding place.
Isa
28:18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement
with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes
through, then you will be trampled down by it.
Isa
28:19 As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning
by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be
nothing but terror to understand the message."
Isa
28:20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is
too narrow to wrap oneself in.
Isa
28:21 For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry
as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual
work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.
Isa
28:22 Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made
strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord,
Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
Isa
28:23 Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!
Isa
28:24 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep
turning the soil and breaking the clods?
Isa
28:25 When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill,
and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley
in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
Isa
28:26 For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him.
Isa
28:27 For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither
is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out
with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
Isa
28:28 Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing
it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his
horses don't grind it.
Isa
28:29 This also comes forth from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful
in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
Nov.
3
Isaiah
29-32
Isa
29:1 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to
year; let the feasts come around;
Isa
29:2 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and
lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.
Isa
29:3 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege
against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.
Isa
29:4 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground.
Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one
who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will
whisper out of the dust.
Isa
29:5 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the
multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it
will be in an instant, suddenly.
Isa
29:6 She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with
earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the
flame of a devouring fire.
Isa
29:7 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even
all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her,
will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Isa
29:8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats;
but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty
man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is
faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that
fight against Mount Zion will be like that.
Isa
29:9 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Isa
29:10 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and
has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads,
the seers.
Isa
29:11 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is
sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, "Read
this, please;" and he says, "I can't, for it is sealed:"
Isa
29:12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying,
"Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read."
Isa
29:13 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their
mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their
heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which
has been taught;
Isa
29:14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among
this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of
their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent
men will be hidden."
Isa
29:15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and
whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?"
and "Who knows us?"
Isa
29:16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to
be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it,
"He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say of him who
formed it, "He has no understanding?"
Isa
29:17 Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned
into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a
forest?
Isa
29:18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the
eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Isa
29:19 The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the
poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Isa
29:20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer
ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off--
Isa
29:21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare
for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice
with false testimony.
Isa
29:22 Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, concerning
the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither
shall his face grow pale.
Isa
29:23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the
midst of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the
Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Isa
29:24 They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and
those who grumble will receive instruction."
Isa
30:1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who
take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with
my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
Isa
30:2 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my
advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to
take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
Isa
30:3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the
refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Isa
30:4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come
to Hanes.
Isa
30:5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit
them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a
reproach."
Isa
30:6 The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of
trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery
flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young
donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an
unprofitable people.
Isa
30:7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I
called her Rahab who sits still.
Isa
30:8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a
book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
Isa
30:9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who
will not hear the law of Yahweh;
Isa
30:10 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the
prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant
things. Prophesy deceits.
Isa
30:11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy
One of Israel to cease from before us."
Isa
30:12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely
on it;
Isa
30:13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to
fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in
an instant.
Isa
30:14 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it
in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the
broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to
dip up water out of the cistern."
Isa
30:15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You
will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in
quietness and in confidence." You refused,
Isa
30:16 but you said, "No, for we will flee on horses;"
therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift;"
therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
Isa
30:17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of
five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a
mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
Isa
30:18 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you;
and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for
Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
Isa
30:19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep
no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry.
When he hears you, he will answer you.
Isa
30:20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the
water of affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore, but
your eyes will see your teachers;
Isa
30:21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the
left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is
the way. Walk in it."
Isa
30:22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of
silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast
them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"
Isa
30:23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow
the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and
plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
Isa
30:24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground
will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel
and with the fork.
Isa
30:25 There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty
mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter,
when the towers fall.
Isa
30:26 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the
sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the
light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of
his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
Isa
30:27 Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with
his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.
Isa
30:28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to
the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a
bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
Isa
30:29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is
kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to
Yahweh's mountain, to Israel's Rock.
Isa
30:30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will
show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and
the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
Isa
30:31 For through the voice of Yahweh the Assyrian will be dismayed.
He will strike him with his rod.
Isa
30:32 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay
on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will
fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.
Isa
30:33 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king
it is made ready. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and
much wood. Yahweh's breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
Isa
31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses,
and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because
they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel,
and they don't seek Yahweh!
Isa
31:2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call
back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers,
and against the help of those who work iniquity.
Isa
31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh,
and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps
shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be
consumed together.
Isa
31:4 For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young
lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called
together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase
himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to
fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.
Isa
31:5 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem.
He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it."
Isa
31:6 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of
Israel.
Isa
31:7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver
and his idols of gold--sin which your own hands have made for you.
Isa
31:8 "The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the
sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword,
and his young men will become subject to forced labor.
Isa
31:9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes
will be afraid of the banner," says Yahweh, whose fire is in
Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
Isa
32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall
rule in justice.
Isa
32:2 A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert
from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a
large rock in a weary land.
Isa
32:3 The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of
those who hear will listen.
Isa
32:4 The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue
of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
Isa
32:5 The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be
highly respected.
Isa
32:6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work
iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh,
To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the
thirsty to fail.
Isa
32:7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices
to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks
right.
Isa
32:8 But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in
noble things.
Isa
32:9 Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless
daughters, give ear to my speech!
Isa
32:10 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless
women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won't come.
Isa
32:11 Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless
ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on
your waist.
Isa
32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful
vine.
Isa
32:13 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on
all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Isa
32:14 For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be
deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a
delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
Isa
32:15 Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the
wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is
considered a forest.
Isa
32:16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness
will remain in the fruitful field.
Isa
32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of
righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Isa
32:18 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in safe
dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
Isa
32:19 Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled
completely.
Isa
32:20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the
feet of the ox and the donkey.
Nov. 2
1
Timothy 2
1Ti 2:1
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers,
intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
1Ti 2:2
for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a
tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
1Ti 2:3
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
1Ti 2:4
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the
truth.
1Ti 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus,
1Ti 2:6
who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own
times;
1Ti 2:7
to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling
the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith
and truth.
1Ti 2:8
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy
hands without anger and doubting.
1Ti 2:9
In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent
clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair,
gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
1Ti
2:10 but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good
works.
1Ti
2:11 Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
1Ti
2:12 But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority
over a man, but to be in quietness.
1Ti
2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
1Ti
2:14 Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen
into disobedience;
1Ti
2:15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they
continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
Nov. 3
1
Timothy 3
1Ti 3:1
This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer,
he desires a good work.
1Ti 3:2
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one
wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
1Ti 3:3
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not
quarrelsome, not covetous;
1Ti 3:4
one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with
all reverence;
1Ti 3:5
(but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he
take care of the assembly of God?)
1Ti 3:6
not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same
condemnation as the devil.
1Ti 3:7
Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to
avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1Ti 3:8
Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not
addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;
1Ti 3:9
holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1Ti
3:10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are
blameless.
1Ti
3:11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers,
temperate, faithful in all things.
1Ti
3:12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and
their own houses well.
1Ti
3:13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good
standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
1Ti
3:14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
1Ti
3:15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave
themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living
God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
1Ti
3:16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was
revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels,
preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up
in glory.
