12 Bible Verses about A Mans Character
Most Relevant Verses
Be followers of me as I also am of Christ. I COMMEND you, brothers, that you have remembered all my [instructions], and that you retain the traditions as I delivered them to you.
And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. He that says, I have known him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
And we charge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which you received from us.
and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience piety, and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.read more.
For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;
As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,
to which he called you by our gospel, to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our epistle;
It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach, not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious, ruling well his own house, having his children in subjection with all dignity,??5 but if any one knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God???6 not a novice, lest being inflated with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.read more.
And he must also have a good name from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.
