1 Timothy 3:8

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Likewyse must the mynisters be honest, not double tonged, not geuen to moch wyne, nether vnto fylthie lucre,

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  • Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timotheus the seruauntes of Iesu Christ. Vnto all the sayntes in Iesu Christ, which are at Philippos, with the Bisshoppes and mynisters.
  • Titus 2:3 : 3 And the elder wemen likewyse that they shewe them selues as it becommeth holynes, that they be no false accusers, not geuen to moch wyne, that they teach honest thinges,
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 Not geuen to moch wyne, no fighter, not geuen to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorrynge stryfe, abhorrynge couetousnes:
  • 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 Drynke no lenger water, but vse a litle wyne for yi stomackes sake, and because thou art oft tymes sicke.
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 Euery man telleth lyes to his neghbor, they do but flater with their lippes and dissemble in their herte.
  • Lev 10:9 : 9 Thou & thy sonnes wt the shal drynke no wyne ner stronge drynke, whan ye go in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse: that ye dye not. Let this be a perpetuall lawe vnto all yor posterities:
  • Acts 6:3-6 : 3 Wherfore brethren, loke out amonge you seue men, that are of honeste reporte, and full of the holy goost and wyssdome, whom we maye appoynte to this nedefull busynes. 4 But we wil geue oure selues vnto prayer, and to the mynistracion of the worde of God. 5 And the sayenge pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Steuen, a man full of fayth and of the holy goost, and Philippe, and Procorus, and Nicanor, and Thimon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas the Proselite of Antioche. 6 These they set before ye Apostles, and they prayed, and layed their handes vpon them.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throte is an open sepulcre, with their tunges they haue disceaued, the poyson off Aspes is vnder their lippes.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 their throte is an open sepulchre: with their tonges they disceaue.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 Thou lettest yi mouth speake wickednesse, & thy tonge paynteth disceate.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Where as the goodnesse of God endureth yet daylie.
  • Ezek 44:21 : 21 All the prestes that go in to the ynmost courte, shall drynke no wyne.
  • Titus 1:7 : 7 For a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, as the stewarde of God: not wylfull, not angrye, not geuen vnto moch wyne, no fyghter, not gredye of filthye lucre:
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let the mynisters be, euery one the hussbade of one wyfe, and soch as rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
  • Jas 3:10 : 10 Out of one mouth proceadeth blessynge and cursynge. My brethre these thinges ought not so to be.
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Fede Christes flocke which is amonge you, and take the ouersighte of the, not as though ye were copelled therto, but wyllingly: not for the desyre of filthye lucre, but of a good mynde:

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    6He maye not be a yoge scolar, lest he be puft vp, and fall in to the iudgment of ye euell speaker.

    7He must also haue a good reporte of them which are without, lest he fall in to the rebuke and snare of the euell speaker.

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    9but hauynge the mystery of faith in pure conscience.

    10And let them first be proued, and then let them mynister, yf they be blamelesse.

    11Euen so must their wyues be honest, not euell speakers, but sober and faithfull in all thinges.

    12Let the mynisters be, euery one the hussbade of one wyfe, and soch as rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.

    13For they that mynister well, get them selues a good degree and greate libertye in the faith which is in Christ Iesu.

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    6Yf eny be blamelesse, the hussbande of one wife, hauynge faithfull children, which are not slaundred or ryote, nether are dishobedient.

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    8but harbarous, one that loueth goodnes, sober mynded, righteous, holy, temperate,

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    1This is a true sayege: Yf a ma covet ye office of a Bisshoppe, he desyreth a good worke.

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    3Not geuen to moch wyne, no fighter, not geuen to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorrynge stryfe, abhorrynge couetousnes:

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    1Bvt speake thou that which becommeth wholsome learnynge.

    2That ye elder men be sober, honest, discrete, sounde in the faith, in loue, in pacience.

    3And the elder wemen likewyse that they shewe them selues as it becommeth holynes, that they be no false accusers, not geuen to moch wyne, that they teach honest thinges,

    4that they enfourme the yonge wemen to be sober mynded, to loue their hussbandes, to loue their childre,

    5to be discrete, chaste, husswyfly, good, obedient vnto their awne hussbandes, that the worde of God be not euell spoken of.

    6Exhorte the yonge men likewyse, that they be sober mynded.

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    8worde which can not be rebuked: that he which withstodeth maye be ashamed, hauynge nothinge in you that he maye disprayse.

    9Exhorte the seruauntes, to be obedient vnto their masters, to please in all thinges, not answeringe agayne,

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