1 Timothy 3:7
He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, or else he may incur reproach and fall into the devil's trap.
2 Timothy 2:26
and they might recover their senses and escape from the devil's trap in which they have been caught by him to do his will.
1 Timothy 6:9
But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin.
2 Corinthians 8:21
For I am taking the precaution to do what is right, not only in the sight of the Lord but also in the eyes of men.
Mark 4:11
Then He said to them, "To you the secret of the kingdom of God has been entrusted, but to those who are on the outside everything is presented in stories, so that
Acts 6:3
So, brothers, you must select from your number seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit, and of good practical sense, and we will assign them to this business,
Acts 10:22
They answered, "Cornelius, a colonel in the army, an upright man and one who reveres God, and a man of high reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to listen to a message you would bring."
Acts 22:12
There a man named Ananias, a man devout in strict accordance with the law, of good reputation among all the Jews who lived there,
1 Corinthians 5:12
For what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are inside the church,
1 Corinthians 10:32
Stop being stumbling blocks to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,
2 Corinthians 6:3
To keep my ministry from being found fault with, I am trying not to put a single hindrance in anybody's way.
Colossians 4:5
Practice living prudently in your relations with outsiders, making the most of your opportunities.
1 Thessalonians 4:12
so that you may live influentially with the outsiders, and not be dependent on anybody.
1 Thessalonians 5:22
Continue to abstain from every sort of evil.
1 Timothy 5:14
So I would have the younger women marry, have children, and keep house, so as not to give our opponents any occasion for slander.
1 Timothy 5:24-25
Some men's sins are very evident and clearly lead them on to judgment, but the sins of others lag behind.
Titus 2:5
to be serious, pure, home keepers, kind, and subordinate to their husbands, so as not to cause God's message to suffer reproach.
Titus 2:8
let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.
1 Peter 4:14-16
If you are suffering abuse because you bear the name of Christ, you are happy, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.
3 John 1:12
Demetrius has a good testimony from everybody and from truth itself; yea, from me too, and you know that my testimony to him is true.