1 Timothy 3:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,

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  • Rom 12:13 : 13 Distributing vnto the necessities of the Saintes: giuing your selues to hospitalitie.
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 But the seruant of ye Lord must not striue, but must be gentle toward all men, apt to teache, suffering the euill,
  • Titus 1:6-9 : 6 If any be vnreproueable, the husbande of one wife, hauing faithfull children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient. 7 For a Bishop must bee vnreproueable, as Gods steward, not froward, not angrie, not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthie lucre, 8 But harberous, one that loueth goodnesse, wise, righteous, holy, temperate, 9 Holding fast that faithfull worde according to doctrine, that he also may bee able to exhort with wholesome doctrine, and conuince them that say against it.
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 Be ye harberous one to another, without grudging.
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 Let not a widow be taken into the number vnder three score yeere olde, that hath beene the wife of one husband,
  • 1 Tim 3:10-11 : 10 And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles. 11 Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Be not forgetfull to intertaine strangers: for thereby some haue receiued Angels into their houses vnwares.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, and watch: for your aduersarie the deuil as a roaring lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure:
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 That the elder men be watchful, graue, teperate, sounde in the faith, in loue, & in patience:
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we keepe sure vnto the ende that beginning, wherewith we are vpholden,
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 That ye may be blamelesse, & pure, and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middes of a naughtie and crooked nation, among whom yee shine as lights in the world,
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 Both were iust before God, and walked in all the commandements and ordinances of the Lord, without reproofe.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 Their watchmen are all blinde: they haue no knowledge: they are all dumme dogs: they can not barke: they lie and sleepe and delite in sleeping.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 Now the ende of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober, and watching in prayer.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 Forbidding to marrie, and commanding to absteine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which beleeue and knowe the trueth.

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  • Titus 1:5-8
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    5For this cause left I thee in Creta, that thou shouldest continue to redresse the thinges that remaine, and shouldest ordeine Elders in euery citie, as I appointed thee,

    6If any be vnreproueable, the husbande of one wife, hauing faithfull children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.

    7For a Bishop must bee vnreproueable, as Gods steward, not froward, not angrie, not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthie lucre,

    8But harberous, one that loueth goodnesse, wise, righteous, holy, temperate,

  • 1 Tim 3:1
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    1This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie worke.

  • 1 Tim 3:3-13
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    3Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,

    4One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.

    5For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?

    6He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the deuill.

    7He must also be well reported of, euen of them which are without, lest he fall into rebuke, and the snare of the deuill.

    8Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,

    9Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.

    10And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.

    11Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.

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

    13For they that haue ministred well, get them selues a good degree, and great libertie in the faith, which is in Christ Iesus.

  • Titus 2:1-7
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    1Bvt speake thou the thinges which become wholesome doctrine,

    2That the elder men be watchful, graue, teperate, sounde in the faith, in loue, & in patience:

    3The elder women likewise, that they be in such behauiour as becommeth holinesse, not false accusers, not subiect to much wine, but teachers of honest things,

    4That they may instruct the yong women to be sober minded, that they loue their husbads, that they loue their children,

    5That they be temperate, chaste, keeping at home, good & subiect vnto their husbands, that the word of God be not euill spoken of.

    6Exhort yong men likewise, that they bee sober minded.

    7In all things shewe thy selfe an ensample of good woorkes with vncorrupt doctrine, with grauitie, integritie,

  • 1 Tim 5:9-10
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    9Let not a widow be taken into the number vnder three score yeere olde, that hath beene the wife of one husband,

    10And well reported of for good woorkes: if shee haue nourished her children, if shee haue lodged the strangers, if shee haue washed the Saintes feete, if shee haue ministred vnto them which were in aduersitie, if shee were continually giuen vnto euery good woorke.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

  • 1 Tim 5:7
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    7These things therefore warne them of, that they may be blamelesse.

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14I will therefore that the yonger women marie, and beare children, and gouerne the house, and giue none occasion to the aduersary to speake euill.

  • 1 Cor 4:2
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    2And as for the rest, it is required of the disposers, that euery man be found faithfull.

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    24But the seruant of ye Lord must not striue, but must be gentle toward all men, apt to teache, suffering the euill,

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    27That hee might make it vnto him selfe a glorious Church, not hauing spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it shoulde bee holy and without blame.

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    1Pvt them in remembrance that they bee subiect to the Principalities and powers, and that they bee obedient, and ready to euery good woorke,

    2That they speake euill of no man, that they be no fighters, but soft, shewing all meekenesse vnto all men.

  • Col 3:18-19
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    18Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.

    19Husbands, loue your wiues, and be not bitter vnto them.

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    2Feede the flocke of God, which dependeth vpo you, caring for it not by constraint, but willingly: not for filthy lucre, but of a ready minde:

  • 1 Tim 3:15
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    15But if I tary long, that thou maist yet know, how thou oughtest to behaue thy self in ye house of God, which is the Church of the liuing God, the pillar and ground of trueth.

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    3We giue no occasion of offence in any thing, that our ministerie shoulde not be reprehended.

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    16If any faithfull man, or faithfull woman haue widowes, let them minister vnto them, and let not the Church bee charged, that there may bee sufficient for them that are widowes in deede.

    17The Elders that rule well, let them be had in double honour, specially they which labour in the worde and doctrine,

  • 1 Pet 3:1-2
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    1Likewise let the wiues bee subiect to their husbandes, that euen they which obey not the worde, may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues,

    2While they beholde your pure conuersation, which is with feare.

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    3If any man teach otherwise, and consenteth not to the wholesome wordes of our Lorde Iesus Christ, and to the doctrine, which is according to godlinesse,

  • 1 Cor 7:32-33
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    32And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord.

    33But hee that is maried, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

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    8Therefore I say vnto the vnmaried, and vnto the widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I doe.

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4That euery one of you should know, how to possesse his vessell in holines and honour,

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8Finally, be ye all of one minde: one suffer with another: loue as brethren: bee pitifull: bee courteous,

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35And this I speake for your owne commoditie, not to tangle you in a snare, but that yee followe that, which is honest, and that yee may cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation.

  • 1 Tim 5:2
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    2The elder women as mothers, the yonger as sisters, with all purenesse.