Verse 2

A bishop therfore must be blamelesse, the husband of one wyfe, watchyng, sober, comely apparelled, a louer of hospitalitie, apt to teache,

Referenced Verses

• Rom 12:13 : 13 Distributyng to ye necessitie of saintes, geuen to hospitalitie.
• 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 And the seruaunt of the Lorde must not striue: but be gentle vnto all men, apt to teache, sufferyng euyll in mekenesse,
• Titus 1:6-9 : 6 If any be blamelesse, the husbande of one wyfe, hauyng faythfull chyldren, not accusable of riote, or vntractable. 7 For a bishop must be blamelesse, as the stewarde of God: not stubborne, not angry, not geuen to wyne, no striker, not geuen to filthie lucre: 8 But a louer of hospitalitie, a louer of goodnes, sober, ryghteous, godly, temperate, 9 Holdyng fast the faythfull worde, which is accordyng to doctrine, that he may be able both to exhort in wholsome doctrine, and to improue them that say agaynst it.
• 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 Be ye harberous one to another, without grudgyng.
• 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 Let not a wydowe be chosen vnder three score yeres olde, hauyng ben the wyfe of one man.
• 1 Tim 3:10-11 : 10 And let them first be proued, then let them minister, beyng blamelesse. 11 Euen so must their wyues be graue, not euyll speakers, sober, faythfull in all thynges.
• Heb 13:2 : 2 Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers: For therby some hauyng lodged Angels, were vnawares therof.
• 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, & watche, for your aduersarie the deuyll, as a roaryng Lion walketh about seking who he may deuour:
• Titus 2:2 : 2 That the elder men be watchyng, graue, sober, sounde in fayth, in loue, in pacience:
• Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christe, yf we kepe sure vnto the ende the begynnyng of the substaunce,
• Phil 2:15 : 15 That ye may be blamelesse and pure, the sonnes of God, without rebuke in the myddes of a croked and peruerse nation, among who shyne ye as lightes in the worlde,
• Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both ryghteous before God, and walked in all the lawes and ordinaunces of the Lorde, that no man coulde fynde fault with them.
• Isa 56:10 : 10 For his watchmen are all blynde, they haue altogether no vnderstanding, they are all dumbe dogges not beyng able to barke, they are sleepy, sluggishe are they and lye snortyng.
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 The ende of all thynges is at hande. Be ye therefore sober, and watche vnto prayer.
• 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 Forbidding to marrie & commaunding to abstayne from meates whiche God hath created to be receaued with geuing thankes, of them whiche beleue, and knowe the trueth.