Verse 2

But a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, the hussbade of one wife, sober, discrete, manerly, harberous, apte to teach:

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 12:13 : 13 Distribute vnto the necessities of the sayntes. Be glad to harbarow.
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 The seruaunt of the LORDE ought not to stryue, but to be gentle vnto euery man: apte to teach, one that can forbeare
  • Titus 1:6-9 : 6 Yf eny be blamelesse, the hussbande of one wife, hauynge faithfull children, which are not slaundred or ryote, nether are dishobedient. 7 For a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, as the stewarde of God: not wylfull, not angrye, not geuen vnto moch wyne, no fyghter, not gredye of filthye lucre: 8 but harbarous, one that loueth goodnes, sober mynded, righteous, holy, temperate, 9 and soch one as cleueth vnto the true worde of doctryne: that he maye be able to exhorte with wholsome lernynge, & to improue them that saye agaynst it.
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 Be ye herberous one to another without grudginge,
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 Let no wedowe be chosen vnder threscore yeare olde, and soch one as was ye wife of one man,
  • 1 Tim 3:10-11 : 10 And let them first be proued, and then let them mynister, yf they be blamelesse. 11 Euen so must their wyues be honest, not euell speakers, but sober and faithfull in all thinges.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers: for therby haue dyuerse receaued angels in to their houses vnawares.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and watch, for yor aduersary ye deuell, walketh aboute as a roaringe lyon, sekynge whom he maye deuoure,
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 That ye elder men be sober, honest, discrete, sounde in the faith, in loue, in pacience.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are become partakers of Christ, yf we kepe sure vnto ye ende the begynnynge of the substace,
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 that ye maye be fautles and pure, and the childre of God without rebuke, in the myddes of ye croked and peruerse nacion, amonge whom se that ye shyne as lightes in the worlde,
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, and walked in all the commaundementes and statutes of the LORDE vnreproueably.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 For his watchmen are all blinde, they haue alltogether no vnderstondinge, they are all domme dogges, not beinge able to barcke, they are slepery: slogish are they, & lie snortinge:
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 The ende of all thiges is at hade.Be ye therfore sober & watch vnto prayers:
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 forbyddinge to mary, and comaundynge to abstayne fro the meates, which God hath created to be receaued wt geuynge thankes of them which beleue and knowe the trueth.