Verse 2

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 12:13 : 13 communicating to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,
  • Titus 1:6-9 : 6 if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly. 7 For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; 8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled; 9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 using hospitality one to another without murmuring:
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man,
  • 1 Tim 3:10-11 : 10 And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless. 11 Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.