Bible verses about "quarrelsome" | Great

¹ This is a true sayinge: If a man desyer the offyce of a Bysshoppe, he desyreth an honest worke. ² A Bisshoppe therfore must be blameles, the husbande of one wyfe, dilygent, sober, discrete, a keper of hospitalite: apte to teach: ³ not geuen to ouer moch wyne, no fyghter, not gredy of fylthye lucre. but gentle, abhorryng fyghtynge, abhorrynge coueteousnes, ⁴ one that ruleth well his awne house, one that hath chyldren in subieccyon with all reuerence. ⁵ For yf a man cannot rule his awne house, howe shall he care for the congregacyon of God? ⁶ He maye not be a yonge scoler, lest he swell and fall into the iudgement of the euyll speaker. ⁷ He must also haue a good reporte of them whych are without, lest he fall into rebuke, and snare of the euyll speaker. ⁸ Lyke wyse must the mynisters be honest, not double tonged, not geuen vnto moch wyne, nether gredy of fylthy lucre: ⁹ but holdynge the mystery of the fayth with a pure conscience. ¹⁰ And let them fyrst be proued, and then let them mynister so, that no man be able to reproue them. ¹¹ Euen so must theyr wyues be honest, not euyll speakers: but sober and faythfull in all thynges. ¹² Let the Deacons be the husbandes of one wyfe, and such as rule theyr chyldren well, and their awne housholdes. ¹³ For they that mynister well, get them selues a good degre and greate lybertye in the fayth, whych is in Christ Iesu. ¹⁴ These thynges write I vnto the trustinge to come shortely vnto the: ¹⁵ but and yf I tarie longe, that then thou mayst yet haue knowledge, howe thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in the house of God, whych is the congregacyon of the lyuynge God, the pyllar & grounde of trueth. ¹⁶ And without doute great is that mystery of godlynes: God was shewed in the flesshe, was iustifyed in the sprete, was sene amonge the Angels, was preached vnto the gentyls, was beleued on in the worlde, and receaued vp in glory.

²² Ye wemen, submit youre selues vnto youre awne husbandes, as vnto the Lorde. ²³ For the husbande is the wyues heed, euen as Chryst is the heed of the congregacyon, and the same is he that ministreth saluacion vnto the body. ²⁴ Therfore, as the congregacyon is in subieccyon to Chryst, lykewyse let the wyues also be in subieccyon to theyr husbandes in all thinges. ²⁵ Ye husbandes, loue youre wyues, euen as Chryst also loued the congregacyon, and gaue hym selfe for it, ²⁶ to sanctifye it, and clensed it in the fountayne of water thorow the worde, ²⁷ to make it vnto him selfe a gloryous congregacyon, without spot or wrynckle, or eny soche thynge: but that it shulde be holy, and without blame. ²⁸ So ought men to loue theyr wyues, as their awne bodyes. He that loueth hys wyfe, loueth hym selfe. ²⁹ For no man euer yet hated hys awne flesshe: but noryssheth and cherissheth it, euen as the Lorde doth the congregacyon. ³⁰ For we are members of his body, of his flesshe, and of hys bones. ³¹ For thys cause shall a man leaue father and mother, & shall be ioyned vnto his wyfe, and of two shalbe made one flesshe. ³² Thys is a greate secrete, but I speake of Chryst and of the congregacyon. ³³ Neuerthelesse, do ye so, that euery one loue hys wyfe euen as hym selfe, and let the wyfe reuerence her husbande.

¹⁵ A braulynge woman and the rofe of the house droppynge in a raynye daye, maye well be compared together.

² A Bisshoppe therfore must be blameles, the husbande of one wyfe, dilygent, sober, discrete, a keper of hospitalite: apte to teach:

²⁴ The seruaunt of the Lorde must not stryue: but be gentle vnto all men apte to teach, and one that can suffre

²⁴ It is better to syt in a corner vnder the rofe, then with a brauling woman in a wyde house:

¹ From whence commeth warre, and fyghtyng amonge you? come they not here hence? euen of youre lustes, that fight in your membres?

²⁴ The seruaunt of the Lorde must not stryue: but be gentle vnto all men apte to teach, and one that can suffre ²⁵ the euyll with meaknes, and can informe them that resyst yf that God at eny tyme wyll geue them repentaunce, for to knowe the trueth: ²⁶ and that they maye come to them selues agayne out of the snare of the deuyll, which are holden captiue of hym at hys wyll.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wildernes then with a chydynge & an angrye woman.