1 Timothy 3:6
New Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil."
Word-by-Word Analysis
νεόφυτος
neóphytos
newly planted, i.e. (figuratively) a young convert ("neophyte")
בִּלְתִּי
biltîy
properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because no...
נָשָׂא
nâsâʼ
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
גָּאוֹן
gâʼôwn
{arrogance or majesty; by implication, (concretely) ornament}
נָפַל
nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
κατάκριμα
katákrima
an adverse sentence (the verdict)
Key Terms in This Verse
νεόφυτος neóphytos
newly planted, i.e. (figuratively) a young convert ("neophyte")
Study G3504 →גָּאוֹן gâʼôwn
{arrogance or majesty; by implication, (concretely) ornament}
Study H1347 →נָשָׂא nâsâʼ
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
Study H5375 →בִּלְתִּי biltîy
properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until, etc.
Study H1115 →נָפַל nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Study H5307 →Cross References
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above mea...
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with the...
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and ...
A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
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