1 Timothy 3:3 Cross References - Moffatt

³ not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money,

¹³ and told them, "It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers."

⁴⁵ Now where is the trusty and thoughtful servant, whom his lord and master has set over his household to assign them their supplies at the proper time? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives! ⁴⁷ I tell you truly, he will set him over all his property. ⁴⁸ But if the bad servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of coming,' ⁴⁹ and if he starts to beat his fellow-servants and to eat and drink with drunkards, ⁵⁰ that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know; ⁵¹ he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of the impious. There men will wail and gnash their teeth.

⁴² The Lord said, "Well, where is the trusty, thoughtful steward whom the lord and master will set over his establishment to give out supplies at the proper time? ⁴³ Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives! ⁴⁴ I tell you plainly, he will set him over all his property. ⁴⁵ But if that servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of arriving,' and if he starts to beat the menservants and maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk, ⁴⁶ that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know; he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of unbelievers.

³⁴ Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap. ³⁵ For it will come upon all dwellers on the face of all the earth. ³⁶ From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."

¹² The hired man, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, deserts them when he sees the wolf coming; he runs away, leaving the wolf to tear and scatter them, ¹³ just because he is a hired man, who has no interest in the sheep.

⁵ "Why was not this perfume sold for ten pounds, and the money given to the poor?" ⁶ (Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.)

¹⁸ Now Simon noticed that the holy Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands; so he brought them money, ¹⁹ saying, "Let me share this power too, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the holy Spirit." ²⁰ Peter said to him, "Death to you and your money, for dreaming you could buy the gift of God! ²¹ You come in for no share or lot in this religion. Your heart is all wrong in the sight of God.

³³ Silver, gold, or apparel I never coveted;

¹⁸ Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people. But surely not of you!

¹⁸ and do not get drunk with wine — that means profligacy — but be filled with the Spirit,

¹⁴ We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

⁸ Deacons in turn are to be serious men; they are not to be tale-bearers or addicted to drink or pilfering;

¹⁰ For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse. ¹¹ Shun that, O man of God, aim at integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, and suavity;

²⁴ And the Lord's servant must not be a man of strife; he must be kind to everybody, a skilled teacher, a man who will not resent injuries; ²⁵ he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition — God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth;

⁷ [For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

¹¹ they must be silenced, for they are undermining whole families by teaching objectionable doctrine for the base end of making money.

³ Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

² they must abuse no one, they must not quarrel, but be conciliatory and display perfect gentleness to all men.

⁵ Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have, for He has said, Never will I fail you, never will I forsake you.

¹ Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

² be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly instead of being pressed to it, not to make a base profit from it but freely,

³ in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments — men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

¹⁴ their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation! ¹⁵ they have gone wrong by leaving the straight road, by following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who liked the profits of evil-doing —

¹¹ Woe to them! they go the road of Cain, rush into Balaam's error for what it brings them, and perish in Korah's rebellion.

⁹ I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

¹¹ And the traders of earth shall weep and wail over her; for now there is none to buy their freights, ¹² freights of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purples, silk, scarlet stuff, all sorts of citron wood and ivory wares, all articles of costly wood, of bronze, of iron and of marble, ¹³ with cinnamon, balsam, spices, myrrh, frankincense, wines, olive-oil, fine flour and wheat, with cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves, and the souls of men.