What Does 1 Timothy 3:2 Mean in the King James?
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The qualification rendered “given to hospitality” calls an overseer a friend of strangers.
THE MEANING
This portrait treats oversight as a whole-life reality: commitment, alertness, self-command, trustworthy conduct, welcome, and teaching belong together. The person entrusted with guiding others is recognizable in how they make room for a stranger and make understanding possible.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that spiritual authority is proved by title alone: this portrait makes credibility visible in conduct, welcome, and the ability to teach.
THE ROOT
φιλόξενον
philoxenon
GROWS FROM
ξεν
xen
Stranger, foreigner, or guest.
“given to hospitality” in this verse is philoxenon. The word joins friendship with the stranger: hospitality reaches beyond the familiar circle. The verse places that welcome alongside trustworthy conduct and teaching as part of what oversight looks like.
ALSO GROWS
xénos: Stranger, foreigner, or guest.
ξένος
This is the person at the heart of hospitality: someone outside the familiar circle.
xenízō: To receive as a guest or entertain a stranger.
ξενίζω
The same root describes receiving the stranger as a guest; welcome changes the relationship.
THE PATTERN
Trustworthy leadership takes shape in visible character and welcome toward others.
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;THE THREAD
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.The same Greek word family appears here and in the qualification translated “given to hospitality.” In both verses, welcome is directed toward another person, making the friend-of-strangers quality a shared practice.
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