1 Timothy 3:1 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ This is a true sayege: Yf a ma covet ye office of a Bisshoppe, he desyreth a good worke.

³⁰ The frute of the rightuous is as the tre of life, a wyse man also wynneth mens soules.

¹⁰ Euen so (I tell you) shal there be ioye before the angels of God, ouer one synner yt doth pennaunce.

²⁰ For it is wrytten in the boke of psalmes: His habitacion be voyde, and noman be dwellinge therin. And: His bisshoprike another take.

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.

¹³ I speake vnto you Heythen: for in as moch as I am ye Apostle of the Heythen, I wil prayse myne office,

¹² wherby the sayntes mighte be coupled together thorow comen seruyce to the edifienge of ye body of Christ,

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.

¹⁴ We desyre you brethre, warne them that are vnruly, coforte the feble mynded, forbeare the weake, be pacient towarde all men.

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.

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.

⁹ This is a sure sayenge, & of all partes worthy to be receaued.

¹¹ This is a true sayenge: Yf we be deed wt him, we shal lyue with him also:

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:

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.

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:

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.

²⁵ For ye were as shepe goinge astraye, but now are ye turned vnto the shepherde and Bisshoppe of youre soules.

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.

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: