1 Timothy 3:8

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

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  • Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul & Timotheus the seruauntes of Iesus Christ: To all the saintes in Christ Iesus, whiche are at Philippos, with the bisshops & deacons:
  • 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 3:3 : 3 Not geuen to ouermuch wine, no striker, not greedy of fylthy lucre: but gentle, abhorryng fyghtyng, abhorryng couetousnesse:
  • 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 Drinke no longer water, but vse a litle wine for thy stomackes sake & thine often diseases.
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.
  • Lev 10:9 : 9 Thou shalt not drinke wine nor strong drinke, thou nor thy sonnes that are with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye dye: Let it be a lawe for euer throughout your generations.
  • Acts 6:3-6 : 3 Wherfore brethren, loke ye out among you seuen men of honest report, & full of the holy ghost, and wysedome, to who we may commit this busynesse. 4 But we wyll geue our selues continually to prayer, and to the ministerie of the worde. 5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Steuen, a man full of fayth, and of the holy ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, & Timon, and Permenas, and Nicolas a conuert of Antioche. 6 These they set before the apostles: and whe they had prayed, they layde their handes on them.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throte is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue deceaued, the poyso of aspes is vnder their lippes.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For no trueth is in their mouth, their inwarde partes are very wickednesse: their throte is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 Thou hast let thy mouth speake wickednesse: and with thy tongue thou hast set foorth deceipt.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.
  • Ezek 44:21 : 21 Al the priestes that go into the inmost court shal drinke no wine.
  • Titus 1:7 : 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:
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let the deacons be the husbandes of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
  • Jas 3:10 : 10 Out of one mouth proceadeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these thynges ought not so to be.
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Feede you God his flocke, whiche is committed vnto you, takyng the ouersight of them not as compelled therto, but wyllyngly, not for the desyre of fylthy lucre, but of a good mynde:

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