1 Timothy 3:11

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Even so [must their] wives [be] grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

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  • Titus 2:3 : 3 The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
  • 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
  • 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
  • 1 Tim 6:2 : 2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise [them], because they are brethren; but rather do [them] service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
  • Titus 3:2 : 2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 ¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • Rev 12:9-9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
  • Lev 21:7 : 7 They shall not take a wife [that is] a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he [is] holy unto his God.
  • Lev 21:13-15 : 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, [or] an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. 15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
  • Ps 15:3 : 3 [He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
  • Ps 50:20 : 20 Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
  • Prov 10:18 : 18 ¶ He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool.
  • Prov 25:13 : 13 ¶ As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, [so is] a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
  • Jer 9:4 : 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
  • Ezek 44:22 : 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
  • Matt 4:1 : 1 ¶ Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
  • Luke 1:5-6 : 5 ¶ There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife [was] of the daughters of Aaron, and her name [was] Elisabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
  • John 6:70 : 70 Jesus answered them, ‹Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?›
  • 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 ¶ Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
  • 1 Tim 1:12 : 12 ¶ And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

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    7Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

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