1 Timothy 3:8 Cross References - EJ2000

⁸ ¶ Likewise the deacons must be honest, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

⁹ Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee when ye go into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest ye die; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations;

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

² Each one speaks vanity with his neighbour: they speak with flattering lips and with a double heart.

¹⁹ Thou didst give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.

² Thy tongue devises wickedness like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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

³ therefore, brethren, seek out among you seven men of whom you bear witness, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. ⁴ And 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 Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch: ⁶ these they set before the apostles, and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

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

¹ ¶ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

³ not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain, but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

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

²³ Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

⁷ For the bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God; not arrogant, not quick to anger, not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain,

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

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

² Feed the flock of God which is among you, caring for her, not by force, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with willing desire;