1 Timothy 3:2

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

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  • Rom 12:13 : 13 Distributyng to ye necessitie of saintes, geuen to hospitalitie.
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 And the seruaunt of the Lorde must not striue: but be gentle vnto all men, apt to teache, sufferyng euyll in mekenesse,
  • Titus 1:6-9 : 6 If any be blamelesse, the husbande of one wyfe, hauyng faythfull chyldren, not accusable of riote, or vntractable. 7 For 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: 8 But a louer of hospitalitie, a louer of goodnes, sober, ryghteous, godly, temperate, 9 Holdyng fast the faythfull worde, which is accordyng to doctrine, that he may be able both to exhort in wholsome doctrine, and to improue them that say agaynst it.
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 Be ye harberous one to another, without grudgyng.
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 Let not a wydowe be chosen vnder three score yeres olde, hauyng ben the wyfe of one man.
  • 1 Tim 3:10-11 : 10 And let them first be proued, then let them minister, beyng blamelesse. 11 Euen so must their wyues be graue, not euyll speakers, sober, faythfull in all thynges.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers: For therby some hauyng lodged Angels, were vnawares therof.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, & watche, for your aduersarie the deuyll, as a roaryng Lion walketh about seking who he may deuour:
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 That the elder men be watchyng, graue, sober, sounde in fayth, in loue, in pacience:
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christe, yf we kepe sure vnto the ende the begynnyng of the substaunce,
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 That ye may be blamelesse and pure, the sonnes of God, without rebuke in the myddes of a croked and peruerse nation, among who shyne ye as lightes in the worlde,
  • Luke 1:6 : 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.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 For his watchmen are all blynde, they haue altogether no vnderstanding, they are all dumbe dogges not beyng able to barke, they are sleepy, sluggishe are they and lye snortyng.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 The ende of all thynges is at hande. Be ye therefore sober, and watche vnto prayer.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 Forbidding to marrie & commaunding to abstayne from meates whiche God hath created to be receaued with geuing thankes, of them whiche beleue, and knowe the trueth.

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    5For this cause left I thee in Creta, that thou shouldest refourme ye thynges that are left, and ordayne elders in euerye citie, as I had appoynted thee:

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

  • 1 Tim 3:3-13
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    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.

    5For yf a man knowe not to rule his owne house, howe shall he care for the Churche of God?

    6Not a young scoler, lest he, beyng puffed vp, fall into the condempnation of the deuyll.

    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.

    11Euen so must their wyues be graue, not euyll speakers, sober, faythfull in all thynges.

    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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    1But speake thou the thynges which become wholsome doctrine.

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

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

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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,

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