1 Timothy 3:11

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Euen so must their wyues be graue, not euyll speakers, sober, faythfull in all thynges.

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  • Titus 2:3 : 3 The elder women lykewyse, that they be in such behauiour as becometh holynesse, not false accusers, not geuen to much wine, teachers of good thinges,
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 A bishop therfore must be blamelesse, the husband of one wyfe, watchyng, sober, comely apparelled, a louer of hospitalitie, apt to teache,
  • 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 Without naturall affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, riotous, fierce, despisers of them which are good,
  • 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But watche thou in all thynges, suffer afflictions, do the worke of an Euangelist, fulfyll thy ministerie:
  • 1 Tim 6:2 : 2 And they whiche haue beleuyng maisters, despise them not because they are brethren: but rather do seruice, forasmuch as they are beleuyng and beloued and partakers of the benefite. These thynges teache and exhort.
  • Titus 3:2 : 2 To blaspheme no man, to be no fyghters, but gentle, shewyng all mekenesse vnto all men.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, & watche, for your aduersarie the deuyll, as a roaryng Lion walketh about seking who he may deuour:
  • Rev 12:9-9 : 9 And the great dragon, that olde serpent, called the deuyll & Satanas, was cast out, which deceaueth all the world: And he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with hym. 10 And I hearde a loude voyce saying in heauen: Nowe is made saluation, & strength, & the kingdome of our God, & the power of his Christ: For the accuser of our brethren is cast downe, which accused them before our God day & nyght,
  • Lev 21:7 : 7 Let them not take a wyfe that is an whore, or polluted, nor put from her husband: for such a one is holy vnto his god.
  • Lev 21:13-15 : 13 He shall take a mayde vnto his wife. 14 But a wydowe, a deuorsed woman, or a polluted, or a harlot, these shall he not marrie: but shall take a mayde of his owne people to wyfe. 15 Neither shal he defile his seede among his people: for I am the Lorde whiche sanctifie hym.
  • Ps 15:3 : 3 He that backbyteth not with his tongue: nor doth any euil to his felowe, nor rayseth a slaunder vpon his neyghbour.
  • Ps 50:20 : 20 Thou sattest and spakedst agaynst thy brother: yea and hast slaundered thine owne mothers sonne.
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 I will destroy him who priuily slaundereth his neighbour: I wyll not suffer hym who hath a proude loke and a great stomacke.
  • Prov 10:18 : 18 He that hydeth hatred with lying lippes, and he that speaketh slaunder, is a foole.
  • Prov 25:13 : 13 As the colde of snowe in the tyme of haruest: so is a faythfull messenger to them that sende hym, for he refresheth his maisters mynde.
  • Jer 9:4 : 4 Yea, one must kepe hym selfe from another, no man may safely trust his owne brother: for one brother vndermindeth another, one neighbour beguileth another.
  • Ezek 44:22 : 22 They shall mary no widowe, neither one that is put from her husband: but a maide of the seede of the house of Israel, or a widowe that hath had a priest before.
  • Matt 4:1 : 1 Then was Iesus ledde away of the spirite into wyldernesse, to be tempted of the deuyll.
  • Luke 1:5-6 : 5 There was in the dayes of Herode the kyng of Iurie, a certaine priest, named Zacharias, of the course of Abia, & his wyfe was of the daughters of Aaron, & her name was Elizabeth. 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.
  • John 6:70 : 70 Iesus aunswereth them: Haue not I chosen you twelue, and one of you is a deuyll?
  • 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 Therefore let vs not sleepe, as do other: but let vs watche and be sober. 7 For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night: and they that be druncken, are druncken in the nyght. 8 But let vs which are of the day, be sober, puttyng on the brest plate of fayth and loue, and a helmet, the hope of saluation.
  • 1 Tim 1:12 : 12 And I thanke Christ Iesus our Lord whiche hath made me strong: For he counted me faythfull, puttyng me into the ministerie,

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    12Let the deacons be the husbandes of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.

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    7He must also haue a good report of the which are without, lest he fall into the rebuke and snare of the deuyll.

    8Likewise must ye ministers be graue, not double tongued, not geuen to much wine, neither greedy of fylthy lucre:

    9Holdyng the misterie of the fayth in a pure conscience.

    10And let them first be proued, then let them minister, beyng blamelesse.

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    2That the elder men be watchyng, graue, sober, sounde in fayth, in loue, in pacience:

    3The elder women lykewyse, that they be in such behauiour as becometh holynesse, not false accusers, not geuen to much wine, teachers of good thinges,

    4To make the young women sober mynded, to loue their husbandes, to loue their chyldren,

    5(To be) discrete, chaste, house kepers, good, obedient vnto their owne husbandes, that the worde of God be not blasphemed.

    6Young men lykewyse exhort, to be sober mynded.

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    1This is a faithful saying: Yf a man desire ye office of a bishop, he desireth a good worke.

    2A bishop therfore must be blamelesse, the husband of one wyfe, watchyng, sober, comely apparelled, a louer of hospitalitie, apt to teache,

    3Not geuen to ouermuch wine, no striker, not greedy of fylthy lucre: but gentle, abhorryng fyghtyng, abhorryng couetousnesse:

    4One that ruleth well his owne house, hauyng chyldren in subiection, with all grauitie.

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    6If any be blamelesse, the husbande of one wyfe, hauyng faythfull chyldren, not accusable of riote, or vntractable.

    7For 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:

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    1Likewise ye wyues, be in subiectio to your husbandes, that euen they whiche obey not the word, may without the word, be wonne by the couersation of ye wiues,

    2Whyle they beholde your chaste conuersation coupled with feare.

    3Whose apparel shal not be outward with brayded heere, & hanging on of gold, eyther in putting on of gorgeous apparel.

    4But let the hid man whiche is in the heart, be without all corruption, so that the spirite be at rest and quiet, whiche spirite is before god a thing much set by.

    5For after this maner in the olde tyme dyd the holy women, whiche trusted in God, tyre them selues, and were obedient vnto theyr husbandes.

    6Euen as Sara obeyed Abraham, and called hym Lorde, whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afrayde for any terrour.

    7Lykewyse ye husbandes dwell with them accordyng to knowledge, geuyng honour vnto the wyfe, as vnto the weaker vessell, and as vnto them that are heires also of the grace of lyfe, that your prayers be not hyndered.

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    18Wiues, submit your selues vnto your owne husbandes, as it is comely in the Lorde.

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    13They learne to wander about from house to house idle: yea not idle only, but also tatlers and busybodies, speakyng thynges which are not comely.

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    9Let not a wydowe be chosen vnder three score yeres olde, hauyng ben the wyfe of one man.

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    11But the yonger wydowes refuse: For whe they haue begun to waxe wanton agaynst Christe, they wyll marrie:

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    9Lykewyse also the women, that they araye them selues in comely apparell, with shamefastnesse, and discrete behauiour, not in brayded heere, either golde or pearles, or costly aray:

    10But (that becommeth women professyng godlynesse) through good workes.

    11Let the woman learne in scilence in all subiection.

    12But I suffer not a woman to teache, neither to vsurpe auctoritie ouer ye man, but to be in scilence.

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    24But as the Church is subiect to Christ, lykewyse the wyues to their owne husbandes in all thynges.

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    2The elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, in all chastitie.

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    22Wyues, submit your selues vnto your owne husbandes, as vnto the Lorde:

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    16Yf any man or woman that beleueth haue wydowes, let them susteine them, & let not the Churches be charged, that there maye be sufficient for them that are wydowes in deede.

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    2Furthermore, it is required of the disposers that a man be founde faythfull.

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    15Notwithstandyng through bearyng of chyldren she shalbe saued, yf they continue in fayth and loue, and holynesse, with modestie.

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    7And these thynges commaunde, that they may be blamelesse.

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    33Therfore euery one of you do ye so Let euery one of you loue his wyfe euen as hym selfe, and let the wyfe reuerence her husbande.

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    11Neuerthelesse, neither is the man without the woman, neither ye woman without the man, in the Lorde.