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
it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

The husband

Leviticus 21:7
A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he is holy to his God;
Ezekiel 44:22
And a widow and divorced woman they do not take to them for wives: but -- virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, and the widow who is widow of a priest, do they take.
Malachi 2:15
And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.
Luke 1:5
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth;
1 Timothy 3:12
Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

Having

Genesis 18:19
for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'
1 Samuel 2:11
And Elkanah goeth to Ramath, unto his house, and the youth hath been serving Jehovah, in the presence of Eli the priest;
1 Samuel 3:12
In that day I establish unto Eli all that I have spoken unto his house, beginning and completing;
1 Timothy 3:4
his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

Not

Proverbs 28:7
Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.

Or

Titus 1:10
for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --
1 Thessalonians 5:14
and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

General references

Leviticus 14:42
and they have taken other stones, and brought them in unto the place of the stones, and other clay he taketh and hath daubed the house.
Ezekiel 44:9
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: No son of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, cometh in unto My sanctuary, even any son of a stranger, who is in the midst of the sons of Israel,