Verse 6

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 3:2-7 : 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; 4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; 5 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?) 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
  • Titus 1:6-8 : 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, as a lover of good, sober-minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
  • Titus 1:10 : 10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
  • Ezek 44:22 : 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
  • Luke 1:5 : 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
  • Eph 5:18 : 18 Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
  • Gen 18:19 : 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
  • Lev 21:7 : 7 "'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.
  • Lev 21:14 : 14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.
  • 1 Sam 2:11 : 11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.
  • 1 Sam 2:22 : 22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting.
  • 1 Sam 2:29-30 : 29 Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people? 30 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
  • 1 Sam 3:12-13 : 12 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end. 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.
  • Prov 28:7 : 7 Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; But he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.