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NASB | 1 Timothy 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 3:2 Now an overseer must be blameless and beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
Subject: More on 1 Tim. 3:2 |
Bible Note: Steve: Previously you wrote: "The writer (John MacArthur) has the hard heart in the wrong person." In a later posting you said: "I do not need a "single credible Bible scholar" to have my same view." My only comment is: Yes, you do. If you wish to criticize or refute what one "credible Bible scholar (John MacArthur)" says, you would be far more convincing with the help of another "credible Bible scholar." (I sincerely hope we will not spend the next two weeks arguing over the defintion of "credible", "Bible" or "scholar." To do so would be to use a diversionary tactic. But one cannot fool all of the people all of the time. ) Then you write: "Some say one is a one-woman man, even if she dies, but, not according to these verses." Not according to these verses? Where in these verses is there any mention, one way or another, of "even if she dies?" There's not a word about dying or becoming a widower in 1 Tim 3:2, just as the words marriage and divorce are not used in this verse. |