1 Timothy 3:6

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“He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.”

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BSBPD

“He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Timothy 3:6 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 8:14then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  2. Deuteronomy 17:20Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.
  3. 2 Kings 14:10You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Glory in that and stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”
  4. 2 Chronicles 26:16But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
  5. 2 Chronicles 32:25But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
  6. Proverbs 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  7. Proverbs 18:12Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
  8. Proverbs 29:23A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
  9. Isaiah 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—
  10. Isaiah 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
  11. Daniel 11:12When the army is carried off, the king of the South will be proud in heart and will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not triumph.
  12. Luke 10:18So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
  13. 1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
  14. 1 Corinthians 4:6Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.
  15. 1 Corinthians 8:1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  16. 2 Corinthians 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
  17. 1 Timothy 6:4he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,
  18. 2 Timothy 3:4traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
  19. Hebrews 5:12Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!
  20. 1 Peter 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
  21. 1 Peter 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
  22. 2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
  23. Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

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