Titus 1:7

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Titus 1:7

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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

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you,

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

Faithful is the Word: If anyone reaches out to overseership, he desires a good work.

As

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord has made ruler over His household, to give them food in due season?

And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his lord shall set over his houseservants, to give them their portion of food in season?

So let a man think of us as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Not selfwilled

Oh my soul, do not come into their secret. Let not my honor be united with their assembly. For in their anger they killed a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung a bull.

and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil.

Not soon

He who is soon angry acts foolishly, and a man of wicked plots is hated.

A wrathful man stirs up fighting, but one slow to anger calms fighting.

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

Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

Not given to wine

Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good;

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die, a statute forever throughout your generations.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to lust for strong drink;

But they also have sinned through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way. The priest and the prophet have sinned through drink; they are swallowed up by wine; they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

They say, come, Let us take wine, and let us gulp strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today, and much more abundant.

And every priest shall not drink wine when they enter the inner court.

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,

not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

Not given to filthy

His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;

General references

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

So says the Lord Jehovah: No son of an alien, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, shall enter into My sanctuary, or any son of an alien among the sons of Israel.

Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake, and for your frequent infirmities.