1. Timotheus 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Context
This verse from 1. Timotheus Chapter 3 connects to 10 cross-references. The qualifications for overseers and deacons: the overseer must be above reproach, husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, hospitable, not a drunkard, not violent, not a lover of money, managing his household well. Similarly for deacons. The church is the …
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The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,
The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;
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His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving …
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them …