Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

General references

Bible References

Any

1 Timothy 3:2
Yea, and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly appareled, harborous, apt to teach,

The husband

Leviticus 21:7
"'They shall take no wife that is an whore, or polluted, or put from her husband: for a priest is holy unto his God.
Ezekiel 44:22
They shall marry no widow, neither one that is put from her husband: but a maiden of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that hath had a priest before.
Malachi 2:15
So did not the one, and yet had he an excellent spirit. What did then the one? He sought the seed promised of God. Therefore look well to your spirit, and let no man despise the wife of his youth.
Luke 1:5
In the time of Herod, the king of Jewry, there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah. And his wife was of the daughters of Aaron: And her name was Elizabeth.
1 Timothy 3:12
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their children well, and their own households.

Having

Genesis 18:19
For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do after right and conscience, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him."
1 Samuel 2:11
And Elkanah went to Ramah, to his house, and the lad did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
1 Samuel 3:12
In that day I will perform to Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house: I will begin it and end it.
1 Timothy 3:4
and one that ruleth his own house honestly, having children under obedience, with all honesty.

Not

Proverbs 28:7
Whoso keepeth the law, is a child of understanding; but he that feedeth riotous men, shameth his father.

Or

Titus 1:10
For there are many disobedient and talkers of vanity, and deceivers of minds, namely they of the circumcision,
1 Thessalonians 5:14
We desire you brethren warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble minded, forbear the weak, have continual patience toward all men.

General references

Leviticus 14:42
And let them take other stones and put them in the places of those stones, and other mortar, and plaster the house withal.
Ezekiel 44:9
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Of all the strangers that dwell among the children of Israel, no stranger, whose heart and flesh is not circumcised, shall come within my Sanctuary: