1 Timothy 3:8 Cross References - AKJV

⁸ Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

⁹ Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

⁹ For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.

² They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

¹⁹ You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

² The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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

³ Why, brothers, look you out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. ⁴ But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. ⁵ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: ⁶ Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

¹ Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

³ Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

¹² Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

²³ Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your often infirmities.

⁷ For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

³ The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not so to be.

² Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;