1 Timothy 3:8

American Standard Version (1901)

Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

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  • Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
  • Titus 2:3 : 3 that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
  • 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
  • Lev 10:9 : 9 Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
  • Acts 6:3-6 : 3 Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word. 5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a proselyte of Antioch; 6 whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Ezek 44:21 : 21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
  • Titus 1:7 : 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;
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well.
  • Jas 3:10 : 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

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    9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

    10And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.

    11Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

    12Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well.

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    1Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

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    1But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine:

    2that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

    3that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

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    6the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:

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    8sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.

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