1 Timothy 3
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This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

is a.

1 Timothy 1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ …

1 Timothy 4:9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

2 Timothy 2:11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also …

Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that you affirm constantly…

the office.

1 Timothy 3:2-7 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, …

Acts 1:20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, …

Philippians 1:1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints …

Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, …

1 Peter 2:25 For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned to the Shepherd …

bishop.

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the …

Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any …

1 Peter 4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an …

1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, …

desireth.

Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise.

Luke 15:10 Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels …

Romans 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the …

Ephesians 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for …

1 Thessalonians 5:14 Now we exhort you, brothers, warn them that are unruly, comfort the …

James 5:19,20 Brothers, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him…

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

Not given to wine. or, Not ready to quarrel, and offer wrong, as one in wine. ver.

1 Timothy 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given …

Leviticus 10:9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, …

Isaiah 5:11,12 Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow …

Isaiah 28:1,7 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious …

Isaiah 56:12 Come you, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves …

Ezekiel 44:21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

Micah 2:11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will …

Matthew 24:45-51 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has made ruler …

Luke 12:42-46 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom …

Luke 21:34-36 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged …

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, …

Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, …

no.

2 Timothy 2:24,25 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle to all …

Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, …

not greedy.

Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes …

Proverbs 15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates …

Isaiah 56:11 Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are …

Jude 1:11 Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily …

filthy.

1 Timothy 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given …

1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, …

Titus 1:7,11 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, …

1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, …

patient.

1 Timothy 6:11 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, …

Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the …

1 Thessalonians 5:14 Now we exhort you, brothers, warn them that are unruly, comfort the …

2 Timothy 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle to all …

Revelation 1:9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and …

a brawler.

Titus 3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all …

James 4:1 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even …

not covetous.

1 Samuel 2:15-17 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said …

2 Kings 5:20-27 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my …

Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one …

Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to …

Micah 3:5,11 Thus said the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, …

Malachi 1:10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nothing? …

Matthew 21:13 And said to them, It is written, My house shall be called the house …

John 10:12,13 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep …

John 12:5,6 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor…

Acts 8:18-21 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands …

Acts 20:33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly…

2 Peter 2:3,14,15 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise …

Revelation 18:11-13 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for …

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

novice. or, one newly come to the faith.

1 Corinthians 3:1 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to …

Hebrews 5:12,13 For when for the time you ought to be teachers…

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may …

lest.

Deuteronomy 8:14 Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, which …

Deuteronomy 17:20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brothers, and that he turn …

2 Kings 14:10 You have indeed smitten Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory …

2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: …

2 Chronicles 32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to …

Proverbs 16:18,19 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall…

Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.

Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Isaiah 2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be on every one that is proud …

1 Corinthians 4:6-8 And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself …

1 Corinthians 8:1 Now as touching things offered to idols, we know that we all have …

2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance …

1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of …

the condemnation.

Isaiah 14:12-14 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how …

Luke 10:18 And he said to them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down …

Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their …

Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

a good.

1 Timothy 5:24,25 Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and …

1 Samuel 2:24 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make the LORD's …

Acts 6:3 Why, brothers, look you out among you seven men of honest report, …

Acts 10:22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that …

Acts 22:12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good …

3 John 1:12 Demetrius has good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yes, …

them.

1 Corinthians 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not …

Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

1 Thessalonians 4:12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that …

lest.

1 Timothy 5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house…

1 Corinthians 10:32 Give none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor …

2 Corinthians 6:3 Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

2 Corinthians 8:21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but …

1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Titus 2:5,8 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their …

1 Peter 4:14-16 If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the …

the snare.

1 Timothy 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …

2 Timothy 2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, …

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

their.

Leviticus 21:7,13-15 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall …

Ezekiel 44:22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away…

Luke 1:5-6 THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest …

Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, …

be. See on ver.

1 Timothy 3:4 One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection …

not.

Psalm 15:3 He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, …

Psalm 50:20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

Psalm 101:5 Whoever privately slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him …

Proverbs 10:18 He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

Proverbs 25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger …

Jeremiah 9:4 Take you heed every one of his neighbor, and trust you not in any …

Matthew 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted …

John 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

2 Timothy 3:3 Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, …

Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, …

Revelation 12:9,10 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, …

sober.

1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, …

1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober…

2 Timothy 4:5 But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an …

Titus 3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all …

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring …

faithful. See on ch.

1 Timothy 1:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, for that he …

1 Timothy 6:2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, …

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

know.

1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, …

Deuteronomy 31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and …

1 Kings 2:2,4 I go the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show …

1 Chronicles 22:13 Then shall you prosper, if you take heed to fulfill the statutes …

1 Chronicles 28:9-21 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …

Acts 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the …

the house.

Ephesians 2:21,22 In whom all the building fitly framed together grows to an holy temple …

2 Timothy 2:20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, …

Hebrews 3:2-6 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful …

1 Peter 2:5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy …

the church. See on ver.

1 Timothy 3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take …

the living.

1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust …

1 Timothy 6:16 Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can …

Deuteronomy 5:26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living …

Joshua 3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you…

1 Samuel 17:26,36 And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall …

2 Kings 19:4 It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, …

Psalm 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and …

Psalm 84:2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart …

Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting …

Jeremiah 23:36 And the burden of the LORD shall you mention no more: for every man's …

Daniel 6:26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble …

Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of …

Matthew 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of …

John 6:69 And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the Son of the living God.

Acts 14:15 And saying, Sirs, why do you these things? We also are men of like …

Romans 9:26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to …

2 Corinthians 3:3 For as much as you are manifestly declared to be the letter of Christ …

2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are …

1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had to you…

Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of …

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal …

Hebrews 12:22 But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, …

Revelation 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal …

the pillar.

Jeremiah 1:18 For, behold, I have made you this day a defended city, and an iron …

Matthew 16:18,19 And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will …

Matthew 18:18 Truly I say to you, Whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven…

Romans 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God.

Galatians 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived …

ground. or, stay. the truth.

1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was …

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man …

John 18:37 Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, …

2 Corinthians 6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness …

Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey …

Ephesians 4:21 If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as …

Colossians 1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof you heard …

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

without.

Hebrews 7:7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

the mystery.

1 Timothy 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Matthew 13:11 He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know …

Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, …

1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, …

Ephesians 1:9 Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his …

Ephesians 3:3-9 How that by revelation he made known to me the mystery; (as I wrote …

Ephesians 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my …

Colossians 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, …

2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets …

Revelation 17:5,7 And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, …

God.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin …

Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government …

Jeremiah 23:5,6 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will raise to David …

Micah 5:2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you be little among the thousands …

Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, …

John 1:1,2,14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the …

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the …

Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, …

Romans 9:5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ …

1 Corinthians 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, …

Philippians 2:6-8 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God…

Colossians 1:16-18 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that …

Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his …

Hebrews 2:9-13 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for …

1 John 1:2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, …

Revelation 1:17,18 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right …

manifest. Gr. manifested.

1 John 3:5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

justified.

Isaiah 50:5-7 The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither …

Matthew 3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: …

John 1:32,33 And John bore record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven …

John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the …

John 16:8,9 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, …

Acts 2:32-36 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses…

Romans 1:3,4 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed …

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, …

1 John 5:6-8 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by …

seen.

Psalm 68:17,18 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: …

Matthew 4:11 Then the devil leaves him, and, behold, angels came and ministered to him.

Matthew 28:2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord …

Mark 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; …

Mark 16:5 And entering into the sepulcher, they saw a young man sitting on …

Luke 2:10-14 And the angel said to them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good …

Luke 22:43 And there appeared an angel to him from heaven, strengthening him.

Luke 24:4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, …

John 20:12 And sees two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the …

Acts 1:10,11 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, …

Ephesians 3:10 To the intent that now to the principalities and powers in heavenly …

1 Peter 1:12 To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they did …

preached.

Luke 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.

Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that …

Acts 13:46-48 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that …

Romans 10:12,18 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the …

Galatians 2:8 (For he that worked effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the …

Ephesians 3:5-8 Which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it …

Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of …

believed.

Acts 14:27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they …

Colossians 1:6,23 Which is come to you, as it is in all the world; and brings forth …

Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, see, a great multitude, which no man could …

received.

Mark 16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into …

Luke 24:51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, …

John 6:62 What and if you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

John 13:3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, …

John 16:28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, …

John 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify you me with your own self with the glory …

Acts 1:1-9,19 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus …

Ephesians 4:8-10 Why he said, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, …

Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his …

Hebrews 8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such …

Hebrews 12:2 Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the …

1 Peter 3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels …

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