Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
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A bishop then must be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, temperate, sagacious, respectable, hospitable, well qualified for teaching;
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Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ordering well their children and their own families.
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Have we not power to carry about with us a sister wife, as do also the other apostles, even the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
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And when Jesus was come into the house of Peter, he saw his mother-in-law laid on a bed, and in a fever.
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For this purpose I left thee behind me at Crete, that thou mightest direct the regulations which remained to be executed, and that thou shouldest appoint presbyters in every city, as I charged thee to do: if there be a man blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not under an accusation or debauchery, or disorderly conduct. For a bishop ought to be irreproachable, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not irritable, not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy of filthy lucre;