Verse 2

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

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 12:13 : 13 to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,
  • Titus 1:6-9 : 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, 9 holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 hospitable to one another, without murmuring;
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,
  • 1 Tim 3:10-11 : 10 and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable. 11 Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 that 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,
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 Blind `are' his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them `are' dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,