Verse 8

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

Referenced Verses

  • Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
  • Titus 2:3 : 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
  • 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
  • Lev 10:9 : 9 "Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:
  • Acts 6:3-6 : 3 Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word." 5 These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch; 6 whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Ezek 44:21 : 21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
  • Titus 1:7 : 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;
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
  • Jas 3:10 : 10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;