1 Timothy 3:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timotheus the seruants of Iesvs Christ, to all the Saintes in Christ Iesus which are at Philippi, with the Bishops, and Deacons:
  • Titus 2:3 : 3 The 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,
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,
  • 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 Drinke no longer water, but vse a litle wine for thy stomakes sake, and thine often infirmities.
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.
  • Lev 10:9 : 9 Thou shalt not drinke wine nor strong drinke, thou, nor thy sonnes with thee, when yee come into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, lest ye die: this is an ordinance for euer throughout your generations,
  • Acts 6:3-6 : 3 Wherefore brethren, looke ye out among you seuen men of honest report, and full of the holy Ghost, and of wisedome, which we may appoint to this busines. 4 And we will giue our selues continually to prayer, and to the ministration 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 Philippe, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a Proselyte of Antiochia, 6 Which they set before the Apostles: and they prayed, and layed their hands on them.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.
  • Ezek 44:21 : 21 Neither shall any Priest drinke wine when they enter into the inner court.
  • Titus 1:7 : 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,
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
  • Jas 3:10 : 10 Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be.
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Feede 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:

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    9Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.

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

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    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.

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

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