1 Timothy 3:1-16 NLT Text Notes

*1 Tim 3:1 Or an overseer, or a bishop; also in 3:2, 6.

*1 Tim 3:2 Or must have only one wife, or must be married only once; Greek reads must be the husband of one wife; also in 3:12.

*1 Tim 3:3 Greek must not drink too much wine; similarly in 3:8.

*1 Tim 3:6 Or he might fall into the same judgment as the devil.

*1 Tim 3:11 Or the women deacons. The Greek word can be translated women or wives.

*1 Tim 3:16 Or of godliness.

*1 Tim 3:16 Greek He who; other manuscripts read God.

*1 Tim 3:16 Or in his spirit.