1 Timothy 3:8

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
  • 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 3:3 : 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
  • 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering li and with a double heart do they speak.
  • Lev 10:9 : 9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernac of the congregation, st ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
  • Acts 6:3-6 : 3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. 5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: 6 Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 Their that is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
  • Ezek 44:21 : 21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
  • Titus 1:7 : 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;
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
  • Jas 3:10 : 10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Feed 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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