1 Timothy3:6

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Translation

not newly planted, so that it not happen that, being puffed up,

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he fall into the judgement of THE DEVIL;

Paraphrase

He cannot be a new convert, or otherwise he might become inflated with conceit and fall into the condemnation of THE ONE WHO ACCUSES FALSELY;

Footnotes

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The word used here means “filled with smoke, puffed up, conceited, become proud.”