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1 Timothy 3:2

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“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;”
1 Timothy 3:2 (KJV)

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15 cross-references for 1 Timothy 3:2

2 Timothy 2:2415 votes
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
Titus 1:6–914 votes
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Romans 12:1310 votes
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
1 Timothy 5:98 votes
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
1 Peter 4:97 votes
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
1 Timothy 3:10–117 votes
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.
1 Peter 5:86 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Hebrews 13:25 votes
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Philippians 2:155 votes
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Titus 2:25 votes
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
1 Peter 4:74 votes
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1 Timothy 4:34 votes
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Hebrews 3:144 votes
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Luke 1:64 votes
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Isaiah 56:102 votes
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
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