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- 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 3:1-1111 verses83%
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;
4one that ruleth well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;
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;
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.
- Titus 2:2-65 verses74%
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:
- 1 Tim 5:16-172 verses70%
- 1 Tim 5:9-102 verses68%
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.
- 1 Pet 3:5-73 verses68%
5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
7Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, {G2532} as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
- 1 Tim 5:2-43 verses67%
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9[None Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing None [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;
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18and them that were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.