NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 8

1 Timothy 3:8

Servants,^† in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

1 Timothy 3:8 in context

1 Timothy 3:5–11

(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Selected verse

Servants,^† in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

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