1 Timothy 3:6 · KJV
“Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. {a novice: or, one newly come to the faith}”
— 1 Timothy 3:6
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1 Timothy 3 — Context
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 shall he take care of the church of God?)
6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. {a novice: or, one newly come to the faith}
7Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
8Likewise {must} the deacons {be} grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Cross References
1 Timothy 6:4
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, {proud: or, a fool} {doting: or, sick}
Hebrews 5:12-13
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which {be} the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all {of you} be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
1 Peter 2:2
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
2 Corinthians 12:7
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
1 Corinthians 3:1
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, {even} as unto babes in Christ.
1 Corinthians 4:6-8
And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and {to} Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think {of men} above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
Isaiah 14:12-14
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! {how} art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! {O Lucifer: or, O day star}
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