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Referenced Verses
- Acts 6:1-2 : 1 Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2 And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables.
- 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
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- 1 Tim 3:11-133 verses81%
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.
13For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Tim 3:5-95 verses79%
5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
6not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
7Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
8Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
- Titus 1:6-83 verses76%
6if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.
7For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;
8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;
- 1 Tim 3:1-33 verses76%
1Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
2The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
- Titus 2:1-88 verses69%
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 None the young women {G1511} {G4994} to love their husbands, to love their children,
5[None to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
6the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:
7in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine [showing] uncorruptness, {G861} gravity,
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.
- 1 Tim 5:16-172 verses67%
- 1 Tim 5:9-102 verses67%
9Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man,
10well reported of for good works; if she hath brought up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath washed the saints' feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.
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10Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe: