1 Timothy 3:8 Cross References - MKJV

⁸ Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,

⁹ Do not drink wine nor strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die, a statute forever throughout your generations.

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

² They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

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

² Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

²¹ And every priest shall not drink wine when they enter the inner court.

³ Therefore, brothers, look out among you seven men being witnessed to, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this duty. ⁴ But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word. ⁵ And the saying pleased all the 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 Nicholas, a proselyte of Antioch. ⁶ They set these before the apostles. And having prayed, they laid hands on them.

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

¹ Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons.

³ not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

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

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

⁷ For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;

³ Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good;

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

² Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;