1 Timothy 3:2 Cross References - ABU

² The overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching;

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

¹³ communicating to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.

¹⁵ that ye may become blameless and simple, children of God, unreproachable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as do the heavenly lights in the world;

¹⁰ And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, being without reproach. ¹¹ [Their] wives in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

³ forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from food, which God created to be received with thanksgiving, for those who believe and know the truth.

⁹ Let not one be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one husband;

²⁴ And a servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle toward all, apt in teaching, patient of evil;

⁶ if any one is without reproach, the husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of rioting or unruly. ⁷ For the overseer must be, without reproach, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of gain; ⁸ but hospitable, a lover of the good, discreet, just, holy, temperate; ⁹ holding fast the faithful word according to the teaching, that he may be able with the sound teaching both to exhort, and to refute the gainsayers.

² that aged men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in the faith, in love, in patience;

¹⁴ For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end.

² Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some entertained angels unawares.

⁷ But the end of all things is at hand. Be therefore sober, and watch unto prayer;

⁹ hospitable to one another, without grudging;

⁸ Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour;