1 Timothy 3:2

A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

In Context

1This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie worke.

3Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,

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Cross References

Isaiah 56:10Their watchmen are all blinde: they haue no knowledge: they are all dumme dogs: they can not barke: they lie and sleepe and delite in sleeping.

Romans 12:13Distributing vnto the necessities of the Saintes: giuing your selues to hospitalitie.

1 Timothy 3:10And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.

1 Timothy 5:9Let not a widow be taken into the number vnder three score yeere olde, that hath beene the wife of one husband,

Titus 1:6If any be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, hauing faithfull children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.

Hebrews 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we keepe sure vnto the ende that beginning, wherewith we are vpholden,

Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 3:2-8

Duties of Bishops and Deacons. ( a. d. 64.) 1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how… Read the whole commentary →

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