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Monday, July 21st, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Bishop's Bible

1 Timothy 2:3

For that is good and accepted in the syght of God our sauiour,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus Continued;   Minister, Christian;   Salvation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Sight, in God's;   The Topic Concordance - Desire;   God;   Goodness;   Prayer;   Salvation;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Election;   God;   Prayer;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Delight;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Christianity;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Timothy, the Second Epistle to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Church;   Intercession;   Savior;   1 Timothy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acceptance;   Discipline;   Restoration;   Salvation Save Saviour;   Saviour (2);   Timothy;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   Worldliness;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Timothy, Epistles of Paul to;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 3;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is good, and it pleases God our Savior,
King James Version (1611)
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour,
King James Version
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
English Standard Version
This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,
New American Standard Bible
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
New Century Version
This is good, and it pleases God our Savior,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
Legacy Standard Bible
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
Berean Standard Bible
This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,
Contemporary English Version
This kind of prayer is good, and it pleases God our Savior.
Complete Jewish Bible
This is what God, our Deliverer, regards as good; this is what meets his approval.
Darby Translation
for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,
Easy-to-Read Version
This is good and pleases God our Savior.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For this is good & acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour,
George Lamsa Translation
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour:
Good News Translation
This is good and it pleases God our Savior,
Lexham English Bible
This is good and acceptable before God our Savior,
Literal Translation
For this is good and acceptable before God our Savior,
Amplified Bible
This [kind of praying] is good and acceptable and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,
American Standard Version
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Bible in Basic English
This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;
Hebrew Names Version
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Savior;
International Standard Version
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,Romans 12:2; 1 Timothy 1:1; 5:4; 2 Timothy 1:9;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For this is good and acceptable before Aloha our Saviour;
Murdock Translation
For this is good and acceptable before God our life-giver;
English Revised Version
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
World English Bible
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Savior;
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,
Weymouth's New Testament
This is right, and is pleasing in the sight of God our Saviour,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For this thing is good and acceptid bifor God,
Update Bible Version
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
Webster's Bible Translation
For this [is] good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
New English Translation
Such prayer for all is good and welcomed before God our Savior,
New King James Version
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
New Living Translation
This is good and pleases God our Savior,
New Life Bible
It is good when you pray like this. It pleases God Who is the One Who saves.
New Revised Standard
This is right and is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is comely and acceptable before our Saviour God,
Douay-Rheims Bible
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,
Revised Standard Version
This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For that is good and accepted in the sight of god oure savioure
Young's Literal Translation
for this [is] right and acceptable before God our Saviour,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For that is good and accepted in ye sighte of God oure Sauioure,
Mace New Testament (1729)
for such offices are commendable, and agreeable to God our saviour,
Simplified Cowboy Version
These two things are what make the Boss smile.

Contextual Overview

1 I exhort therefore, that firste of all, prayers, supplications, intercessios and geuynge of thankes be made for all men: 2 For kynges, and for all that are in auctoritie, that we maye leade a quiete and peaceable lyfe, in all godlynesse and honestie. 3 For that is good and accepted in the syght of God our sauiour, 4 Who wyll haue all men to be saued, and to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth. 5 For [there is] one God, and one mediatour of God and men, the man Christe Iesus: 6 Who gaue him selfe a raunsome for all, a testimonie in due tymes. 7 Wherevnto I am ordeined a preacher and an apostle (I tell the trueth in Christe, and lye not) a teacher of the gentiles in fayth and veritie. 8 I wyll therefore, that the men praye euerywhere, lyftyng vp holy handes, without wrath and reasonyng.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this: 1 Timothy 5:4, Romans 12:1, Romans 12:2, Romans 14:18, Ephesians 5:9, Ephesians 5:10, Philippians 1:11, Philippians 4:18, Colossians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 4:1, Hebrews 13:16, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:20

God: 1 Timothy 1:1, Isaiah 45:21, Luke 1:47, 2 Timothy 1:9

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 3:9 - fear John 5:34 - that Acts 4:19 - Whether 1 Thessalonians 1:3 - in the Titus 1:3 - God Titus 3:4 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
And in the seuenth day God ended his worke whiche he had made. And the seueth day he rested from all his worke which he had made.
Genesis 2:3
And God blessed the seuenth daye, & sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke whiche God ordeyned to make.
Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.
Genesis 2:7
The Lorde God also dyd shape man, [euen] dust fro of the grounde, & breathed into his nosethrylles the breath of lyfe, and man was a lyuyng soule.
Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.
Genesis 2:10
And out of Eden there went foorth a flood to water the garden, and from thence it was deuided, and became into foure heades.
Genesis 2:11
The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:
Genesis 2:12
And the golde of the lande is very good. There is also Bdellium, and the Onix stone.
Genesis 2:13
The name of the seconde riuer is Gyhon: the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Ethiopia.
Genesis 2:14
The name of ye thirde ryuer is Hidekel, & it goeth toward the east side of Assiria: & the fourth ryuer is Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour. Not only to live peaceably and quietly under the government men are, since that is the ordination of God, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly, which his grace teaches; but to pray for all sorts of men, and for those who are set in the highest place of government, even though enemies and persecutors: this is good in itself, and in the sight of an omniscient God, who sees not as man seeth; and it is acceptable unto him through Jesus Christ, by whom every sacrifice of prayer or praise is so; for by God our Saviour is meant God the Father, who is the Saviour of all men, in a way of providence, and the Saviour of all the elect in a way of special grace; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For this is good and acceptable - That is, it is good and acceptable to God that we should pray for all people. The reason is, that he desires their salvation, and hence it is agreeable to him that we should pray for it. If there were no provision made for their salvation, or if he was unwilling that they should be saved, it could not be agreeable to him that we should offer prayer for them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Timothy 2:3. This is good and acceptable — Prayer for all legally constituted authorities is good in itself, because useful to ourselves and to the public at large, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; and this is its highest sanction and its highest character: it is good; it is well pleasing to God.


 
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