1 Timothy 3:2

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

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  • Rom 12:13 : 13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
  • Titus 1:6-9 : 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
  • 1 Tim 3:10-11 : 10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. 11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
  • 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:
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

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    5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

    6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

    7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

    8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

  • 1 Tim 3:1
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    1This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

  • 1 Tim 3:3-13
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    3Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

    4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

    5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

    6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

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

    8Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

    9Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

    10And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

    11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

    12Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

    13For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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    1But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

    2That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

    3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

    4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

    6Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

    7In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

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    9Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

    10Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

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    2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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    7And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

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    14I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

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    2Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

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    24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

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    2Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

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    1Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

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    32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

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