1 Timothy 3:2 Cross References - Williams

² So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

⁶ Now they were both upright in the sight of God, walking without reproach in all the Lord's commands and requirements.

¹³ always supplying the needs of God's people, ever practicing hospitality.

¹⁵ so that you may prove to be blameless and spotless, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverted age, in which you shine as light-bearers in the world as you continue

¹⁰ They, too, should first be tested till approved, and then, if they are found above reproach, they should serve as deacons. ¹¹ The deaconesses too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate and perfectly trustworthy.

³ who forbid people to marry and teach them to abstain from certain sorts of food which God created for the grateful enjoyment of those who have faith and a clear knowledge of the truth.

⁹ No widow under sixty years of age should be put on this roll. A widow must have had but one husband,

²⁴ and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel but must be gentle to everybody; he must be a skillful teacher, and not resentful under injuries.

⁶ each elder must be above reproach, have only one wife, and his children must not be liable to the charge of profligacy or disobedience. ⁷ For as God's trustee a pastor must be above reproach, not stubborn or quick-tempered or addicted to strong drink or pugnacious or addicted to dishonest gain, ⁸ but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of pure life, self-controlled, ⁹ and a man who continues to cling to the trustworthy message as he was taught it, so that he may be competent to encourage others with wholesome teaching and to convict those who oppose him.

² the older men to be temperate, serious, and sensible, healthy in faith, in love, and in steadfastness;

¹⁴ For we have become real sharers in Christ, if we keep firm to the end the faith we had at first,

² Do not remain neglectful of hospitality to strangers, for by it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

⁷ But the end of everything on earth is near. So be serious and sober minded, that you may give yourselves to prayer.

⁹ Be ungrudgingly hospitable to one another.

⁸ Be calm and alert. Your opponent the devil is always prowling about like a roaring lion, trying to devour you.