Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even so must their wives be honest, not evil speakers: but sober, and faithful in all things.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Holman Bible
Wives,
International Standard Version
Their wives must also be serious. They must not be gossips, but instead be stable and trustworthy in everything.
A Conservative Version
The wives likewise, be honorable, not slanderous, without wine, faithful in all things.
American Standard Version
Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Women [i.e., probably the deacons' wives], in the same way, should be serious-minded [i.e., dignified], not gossips, [but] sober-minded [see verse 2] and trustworthy in everything.
Anderson New Testament
Their wives likewise must be grave, not slanderers, watchful, faithful in all things.
Bible in Basic English
Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.
Common New Testament
The women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.
Daniel Mace New Testament
their wives must be likewise grave, free from scandal, sober, and always faithful.
Darby Translation
The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Godbey New Testament
Likewise let their wives be grave, not tattlers, modest, faithful in all things.
Goodspeed New Testament
Their wives too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate, and perfectly trustworthy.
John Wesley New Testament
In like manner their wives must be serious, not slanderers, vigilant, faithful in all things.
Julia Smith Translation
Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things.
King James 2000
Even so must their wives be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The wives likewise [must be] dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in all [things].
Modern King James verseion
Even so their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
Moffatt New Testament
Their wives must be serious too; they must not be slanderers but temperate and absolutely trustworthy.
Montgomery New Testament
Deaconesses likewise must be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
NET Bible
Likewise also their wives must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in every respect.
New Heart English Bible
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
Noyes New Testament
The women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Sawyer New Testament
The women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, circumspect, faithful in all things.
The Emphasized Bible
Wives, in the same way, - dignified, not given to intrigue, sober, faithful in all things.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Their wives in like manner must be grave women, not addicted to scandal, sober, faithful in all things.
Twentieth Century New Testament
It should be the same with the women. They should be serious, not gossips, sober, and trustworthy in all respects.
Webster
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Weymouth New Testament
Deaconesses, in the same way, must be sober-minded women, not slanderers, but in every way temperate and trustworthy.
Williams New Testament
The deaconesses too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate and perfectly trustworthy.
World English Bible
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
Worrell New Testament
It is needful that their wives, in like manner, be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Worsley New Testament
And their wives likewise grave, not slanderers, sober, and faithful in all things.
Youngs Literal Translation
Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.
Themes
Deacons » The duties of a deacon
Drunkenness » Who should not drink
Faithfulness » Especially required in » The wives of ministers
Faithfulness » Exhibited in » All things
Home » Husbands and wives » Duties of wives
Slander » Minister's wives should avoid
Slander » Wives of God's servants should avoid
Sobriety » Who should be sober
Sobriety » Required in » Wives of ministers
Sobriety » Required in » Wives of servants of God
Social duties » In relation to food in relation to speech » Wives' duties
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Timothy 3:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Qualifications For Deacons
10 And let them first be proved, and then let them minister, if they be found faultless. 11 Even so must their wives be honest, not evil speakers: but sober, and faithful in all things. 12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their children well, and their own households.
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Cross References
Titus 2:3
And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things,
1 Timothy 3:2
Yea, and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly appareled, harborous, apt to teach,
2 Timothy 3:3
unkind, trucebreakers, stubborn, false accusers, rioters, fierce, despisers of them which are good,
Leviticus 21:7
"'They shall take no wife that is an whore, or polluted, or put from her husband: for a priest is holy unto his God.
Leviticus 21:13-15
"'He shall take a maiden unto his wife:
Psalm 15:3
He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour, and hath not slandered his neighbours.
Psalm 50:20
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, yea and slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psalm 101:5
Who so privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy. Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomach, I will not suffer him.
Proverbs 10:18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that speaketh slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 25:13
Like as the winter cool in the harvest, so is a faithful messenger to him that sent him, and refresheth his master's mind.
Jeremiah 9:4
Yea, one must keep himself from another; no man may safely trust his own brother. For one brother undermineth another, and one neighbour begileth another.
Ezekiel 44:22
They shall marry no widow, neither one that is put from her husband: but a maiden of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that hath had a priest before.
Matthew 4:1
Then was Jesus led away of the spirit into wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Luke 1:5-6
In the time of Herod, the king of Jewry, there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah. And his wife was of the daughters of Aaron: And her name was Elizabeth.
John 6:70
Jesus answered them, "Have not I chosen you twelve? And yet one of you is the devil?"
1 Thessalonians 5:6-8
Therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch and be sober.
1 Timothy 1:12
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord which hath made me strong: for he counted me true, and put me in office,
1 Timothy 6:2
See that they which have believing masters despise them not because they are brethren: but so much the rather do service, forasmuch as they are believing and beloved and partakers of the benefits. These things teach and exhort.
2 Timothy 4:5
But watch thou in all things, and suffer adversity, and do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thine office unto the utmost.
Titus 3:2
that they speak evil of no man, that they be no fighters, but soft, showing all meekness unto all men.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Revelation 12:9-10
And the great dragon, that old serpent called the devil and Satan; Was cast out. Which deceiveth all the world. And he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out also.