Titus 1:7

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Titus 1:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

A bishop

Titus 1:5

Philippians 1:1

1 Timothy 3:1

As

Not selfwilled

Genesis 49:6

2 Peter 2:10

Not soon

James 1:19

Not given to wine

Not given to filthy

Isaiah 56:10

1 Timothy 3:3

1 Peter 5:2

General references

Leviticus 14:42

Ezekiel 44:9

1 Timothy 5:23

Bible References

A bishop

This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you--

Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.

As

"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

And the Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

Not selfwilled

Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.

and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,

Not soon

A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Not given to wine

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

"Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

"Come," they say, "let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure."

No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

Not given to filthy

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight,not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you;not for shameful gain, but eagerly;

General references

Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.

"Thus says the Lord GOD: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)