Verse 2

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 12:13 : 13 contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,
  • Titus 1:6-9 : 6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior. 7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain; 8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled; 9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
  • 1 Tim 3:10-11 : 10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless. 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.