Discovery Box1 Timothy 3:1 
ContextQualifications for Overseers and Deacons
3:1 This saying 1 is trustworthy: “If someone aspires to the office of overseer, 2 he desires a good work.”
1 Timothy 3:12
Context3:12 Deacons must be husbands of one wife 3 and good managers of their children and their own households.
1 Timothy 4:4
Context4:4 For every creation of God is good and no food 4 is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
1 tn Grk “the saying,” referring to the following citation (see 1 Tim 1:15; 4:9; 2 Tim 2:11; Titus 3:8 for other occurrences of this phrase).
2 tn Grk “aspires to oversight.”
3 tn Or “men married only once,” “devoted solely to their wives” (see the note on “wife” in 1 Tim 3:2; also 1 Tim 5:9; Titus 1:6).
4 tn Grk “nothing.”
