1 Timothy 3:1

World English Bible (WEB)

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

In context

1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

WEB World English Bible: This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
KJV King James Version: This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
BSB Berean Standard Bible: This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
ASV American Standard Version: Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: Stedfast [is] the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;
DBY Darby Translation: The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.
WBS Webster Bible: This is a true saying, If a man desireth the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.