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1 Timothy 3 2-1 Timothy 3 7
The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober- minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;( but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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1 Timothy 3 12
Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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Titus 1:6-8
if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.For the bishop must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self- willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober- minded, just, holy, self- controlled;
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Titus 1:10
For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,
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Ezekiel 44:22
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.
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Leviticus 21:7
They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
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Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
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1 Thessalonians 5 14
And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
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1 Samuel 3 12-1 Samuel 3 13
In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even unto the end.For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse upon themselves, and he restrained them not.
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Proverbs 28:7
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son; But he that is a companion of gluttons shameth his father.
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1 Samuel 2 29-1 Samuel 2 30
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
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1 Samuel 2 22
Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how that they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting.
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Malachi 2:15
And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
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Luke 1:5
There was in the days of Herod, king of Judæa, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah: and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
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Genesis 18:19
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
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Leviticus 21:14
A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.
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1 Samuel 2 11
And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto Jehovah before Eli the priest.