A church leader must not be a new believer, because he might become proud, and the devil would cause him to fall.

初入教的不可作监督，恐怕他自高自大，就落在魔鬼所受的刑罚里。

刚信主的，不可作监督，恐怕他自高自大，落在魔鬼所受的惩罚里。

刚信主的，不可作监督，恐怕他自高自大，落在魔鬼所受的惩罚里。

初信主的人不可做监督，免得他自高自大，遭受魔鬼所受的惩罚。

初信主的不可作监督，恐怕他骄傲，就落在魔鬼所受的刑罚里。

做监督的不可以是新信徒，免得他自以为是，就落在魔鬼所受的惩罚里；

初入教的不可作監督，恐怕他自高自大，就落在魔鬼所受的刑罰裏。

剛信主的，不可作監督，恐怕他自高自大，落在魔鬼所受的懲罰裏。

剛信主的，不可作監督，恐怕他自高自大，落在魔鬼所受的懲罰裏。

初信主的人不可作監督，免得他自高自大，遭受魔鬼所受的懲罰。

初信主的不可作監督，恐怕他驕傲，就落在魔鬼所受的刑罰裡。

不可讓新進教的做監督，免得他蒙於傲氣，而掉在魔鬼所受的定罪裏。

做監督的不可以是新信徒，免得他自以為是，就落在魔鬼所受的懲罰裡；

甫入教者未可也、恐其自衒、罹魔之刑、

甫入教者、未可為督、恐自衒與魔鬼同刑、

甫入教者、不可為以毘司可普、恐其自高、陷於魔之罪、與魔同刑、

奉教不久者、亦不宜遽充司牧；恐其妄自尊大、而蹈沙殫之覆轍。

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.

The leader must not be a new believer. If he is, he might become proud. Then he would be judged just like the devil.

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and incur the same condemnation as the devil.

and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into condemnation incurred by the devil.

not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and fall into the condemnation of the Devil.

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. And all of you, dress yourselves in humility as you relate to one another, for“ God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment,

Anyone who teaches something different is arrogant and lacks understanding. Such a person has an unhealthy desire to quibble over the meaning of words. This stirs up arguments ending in jealousy, division, slander, and evil suspicions.

You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food.For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right.

even though I have received such wonderful revelations from God. So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud.

Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ.

Do not become proud at that time and forget the Lord your God, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.

“ Yes,” he told them,“ I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning!

“ How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world.For you said to yourself,‘ I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north.I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.’

Now regarding your question about food that has been offered to idols. Yes, we know that“ we all have knowledge” about this issue. But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church.

Haughtiness goes before destruction; humility precedes honor.

This regular reading will prevent him from becoming proud and acting as if he is above his fellow citizens. It will also prevent him from turning away from these commands in the smallest way. And it will ensure that he and his descendants will reign for many generations in Israel.

Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.Better to live humbly with the poor than to share plunder with the proud.

Dear brothers and sisters, I have used Apollos and myself to illustrate what I’ve been saying. If you pay attention to what I have quoted from the Scriptures, you won’t be proud of one of your leaders at the expense of another.For what gives you the right to make such a judgment? What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?You think you already have everything you need. You think you are already rich. You have begun to reign in God’s kingdom without us! I wish you really were reigning already, for then we would be reigning with you.

But Hezekiah did not respond appropriately to the kindness shown him, and he became proud. So the Lord’s anger came against him and against Judah and Jerusalem.

Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor.

But when he had become powerful, he also became proud, which led to his downfall. He sinned against the Lord his God by entering the sanctuary of the Lord’s Temple and personally burning incense on the incense altar.

“ You have indeed defeated Edom, and you are proud of it. But be content with your victory and stay at home! Why stir up trouble that will only bring disaster on you and the people of Judah?”

For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has a day of reckoning. He will punish the proud and mighty and bring down everything that is exalted.

They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God.

And I remind you of the angels who did not stay within the limits of authority God gave them but left the place where they belonged. God has kept them securely chained in prisons of darkness, waiting for the great day of judgment.

For God did not spare even the angels who sinned. He threw them into hell, in gloomy pits of darkness, where they are being held until the day of judgment.