Titus 1:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

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  • 1 Tim 3:2-7 : 2 it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach, 3 not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money, 4 his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity, 5 (and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?) 6 not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil; 7 and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,
  • Titus 1:6-8 : 6 if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate -- 7 for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,
  • Titus 1:10 : 10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --
  • Ezek 44:22 : 22 And a widow and divorced woman they do not take to them for wives: but -- virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, and the widow who is widow of a priest, do they take.
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 And He did not make one `only', And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what `is' the one `alone'! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.
  • Luke 1:5 : 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth;
  • Eph 5:18 : 18 and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;
  • Gen 18:19 : 19 for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'
  • Lev 21:7 : 7 `A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he `is' holy to his God;
  • Lev 21:14 : 14 widow, or cast out, or polluted one -- a harlot -- these he doth not take, but a virgin of his own people he doth take `for' a wife,
  • 1 Sam 2:11 : 11 And Elkanah goeth to Ramath, unto his house, and the youth hath been serving Jehovah, `in' the presence of Eli the priest;
  • 1 Sam 2:22 : 22 And Eli `is' very old, and hath heard all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they lie with the women who are assembling `at' the opening of the tent of meeting,
  • 1 Sam 2:29-30 : 29 Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded `in' My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people? 30 `Therefore -- the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel -- I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.
  • 1 Sam 3:12-13 : 12 In that day I establish unto Eli all that I have spoken unto his house, beginning and completing; 13 and I have declared to him that I am judging his house -- to the age, for the iniquity which he hath known, for his sons are making themselves vile, and he hath not restrained them,
  • Prov 28:7 : 7 Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Tim 3:1-12
    12 verses
    86%

    1Stedfast `is' the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

    2it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

    3not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

    4his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

    5(and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

    6not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

    7and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

    8Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

    9having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,

    10and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

    11Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

    12Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

  • Titus 1:7-8
    2 verses
    86%

    7for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

    8but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

  • 1 Tim 5:7-11
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    77%

    7and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

    8and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

    9A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

    10in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

    11and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,

  • Titus 2:2-8
    7 verses
    76%

    2aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

    3aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

    4that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children,

    5sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

    6The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;

    7concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

    8discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

  • Titus 1:5
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    5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

  • 1 Tim 5:14
    72%

    14I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

  • 1 Tim 6:14
    71%

    14that thou keep the command unspotted, unblameable, till the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Eph 5:27
    71%

    27that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

  • 1 Tim 5:16
    70%

    16If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

  • 1 Tim 5:1-4
    4 verses
    69%

    1An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

    2aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;

    3honour widows who are really widows;

    4and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

  • 1 Tim 6:1
    69%

    1As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

  • 1 Cor 7:14
    69%

    14for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Cor 7:8
    69%

    8And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';

  • 1 Cor 5:1
    68%

    1Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --

  • 1 Cor 7:35-36
    2 verses
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    35And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

    36and if any one doth think `it' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

  • 1 Cor 7:11
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    11but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

  • Luke 1:6
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    6and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

  • 1 Tim 1:10
    68%

    10whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

  • Phil 2:15
    68%

    15that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

  • 1 Cor 4:2
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    2and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

  • 1 Tim 4:6
    68%

    6These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,