These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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1 Timothy 3
Brit Hadashah 15 verses
- 1 Faithful is the saying, “If any one is eager to have the oversight of a Church, he desires a noble work.”
- 2 A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a for teaching;
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not a hard drinker nor given to blows; not selfish or quarrelsome or covetous;
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Titus 1:7 1 Timothy 3:8 Titus 3:2 James 4:1 Isaiah 28:7 Leviticus 10:9 Ephesians 5:18 1 Peter 5:2 Luke 12:42-46 Hebrews 13:5 Romans 16:18 Isaiah 56:11-12 2 Peter 2:14-15 Isaiah 5:11-12 Proverbs 15:27 Matthew 24:45-51 Revelation 1:9 John 10:12-13 Luke 21:34-36 Jude 1:11 Micah 2:11 Matthew 21:13 Jeremiah 8:10 2 Timothy 2:24-25 Revelation 18:11-13 2 Kings 5:20-27 Micah 3:11 1 Thessalonians 5:14 2 Peter 2:3 Proverbs 1:19 John 12:5-6 Jeremiah 6:13 Titus 1:11 Isaiah 28:1 1 Samuel 2:15-17 Titus 2:3 Ezekiel 44:21 Micah 3:5 Acts 20:33 Ecclesiastes 7:8 1 Timothy 6:10-11 Acts 8:18-21 1 Samuel 8:3 Malachi 1:10 -
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but ruling his own household wisely and well, with children kept under control with true dignity.
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He ought not to be a new convert, for he should be blinded with pride and come under the same condemnation as the Devil.
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1 Timothy 6:4 Isaiah 14:12-14 Proverbs 18:12 Proverbs 29:23 1 Peter 2:2 2 Timothy 3:4 Deuteronomy 8:14 1 Peter 5:5 Hebrews 5:12-13 1 Corinthians 8:1 1 Corinthians 3:1 Deuteronomy 17:20 2 Kings 14:10 Isaiah 2:12 Jude 1:6 2 Corinthians 12:7 1 Corinthians 4:6-8 Luke 10:18 Proverbs 16:18-19 2 Chronicles 32:25 2 Chronicles 26:16 2 Peter 2:4 -
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It is needful also that he bear a good character with people outside the Church, lest he fall into reproach or a snare of the Devil.
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- 8 Deacons, in the same way, must be men of serious demeanour, not double-tongued, nor addicted to much wine, nor greedy of base gain,
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but holding the secret truths of the with a clear conscience.
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- 10 And they must also be well-tried men, and when found to be of unblemished character then let them as deacons.
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Deaconesses, in the same way, must be sober-minded women, not slanderers, but in every way temperate and trustworthy.
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Titus 2:3 2 Timothy 3:3 1 Timothy 3:2 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 Leviticus 21:7 2 Timothy 4:5 Psalm 50:20 Luke 1:5-6 Psalm 15:3 1 Timothy 6:2 Proverbs 25:13 Psalm 101:5 1 Peter 5:8 Proverbs 10:18 Titus 3:2 1 Timothy 1:12 Matthew 4:1 John 6:70 Jeremiah 9:4 Revelation 12:9-10 Ezekiel 44:22 Leviticus 21:13-15 -
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A must be true to his one wife, and rule his children and his own household wisely and well.
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- 13 For those who have filled the deacon’s office wisely and well, are already gaining for themselves an honourable standing, and are acquiring great freedom of speech in proclaiming the which rests on .
- 14 All this I write to you, though I am hoping before long to come to see you.
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But, for I may be hindered, I now write, so that you may have rules to guide you in dealing with Elohim’s household. For this is what the Church of the ever-living is, and it is the pillar and foundation-stone of the .
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1 Peter 2:5 1 Timothy 4:10 Galatians 2:9 Matthew 18:18 2 Corinthians 6:16 Matthew 16:16 Hebrews 9:14 Joshua 3:10 Acts 1:2 Romans 3:2 Daniel 6:26 1 Kings 2:4 Romans 9:26 Jeremiah 10:10 Acts 14:15 John 18:37 Deuteronomy 5:26 1 Samuel 17:36 Jeremiah 23:36 2 Corinthians 3:3 1 Timothy 3:5 1 Kings 2:2 Revelation 7:2 Ephesians 4:21 Matthew 16:18-19 1 Chronicles 28:9-21 2 Corinthians 6:7 John 6:69 John 1:17 Hebrews 12:22 Hebrews 3:2-6 Psalm 84:2 Hosea 1:10 1 Timothy 3:16 Galatians 3:1 Deuteronomy 31:23 2 Timothy 2:20 1 Timothy 3:2 Hebrews 3:12 Psalm 42:2 John 14:6 1 Timothy 6:16 1 Samuel 17:26 Ephesians 2:21-22 Jeremiah 1:18 Colossians 1:5 1 Thessalonians 1:9 2 Kings 19:4 1 Chronicles 22:13 -
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And, beyond controversy, great is the mystery of our religion—that appeared in human form, and His claims justified by the , was seen by angels and proclaimed among Gentile nations, was believed on in the world, and received up again into .
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John 1:14 Hebrews 1:3 Colossians 1:23 Romans 16:25 Luke 24:4 Mark 16:19 Matthew 3:16 Matthew 1:23 1 Timothy 3:9 Isaiah 9:6 Acts 20:28 Luke 22:43 Matthew 13:11 2 Thessalonians 1:10 1 Peter 1:20 1 John 5:6-8 Colossians 1:16-18 Romans 8:3 John 1:1-2 1 Corinthians 15:47 Isaiah 50:5-7 John 17:5 1 Peter 3:22 Revelation 17:5 John 16:8-9 Romans 10:12 Hebrews 12:2 1 Corinthians 2:7 Isaiah 7:14 Hebrews 8:1 1 Peter 3:18 John 15:26 Luke 2:32 Matthew 28:2 Acts 1:19 Colossians 1:6 Psalm 68:17-18 Jeremiah 23:5-6 Acts 10:34 Romans 10:18 John 1:32-33 Ephesians 3:3-10 1 Peter 1:12 2 Thessalonians 2:7 Galatians 4:4 Acts 13:46-48 Galatians 2:8 Philippians 2:6-8 1 John 3:5 Mark 16:5 Micah 5:2 Acts 2:32-36 Revelation 17:7 Ephesians 6:19 Luke 2:10-14 John 13:3 John 16:28 Colossians 2:2 Hebrews 2:9-13 Acts 14:27 John 20:12 Hebrews 7:7 1 John 1:2 Revelation 1:17-18 Luke 24:51 Acts 1:1-11 Ephesians 1:9 Matthew 4:11 Mark 1:13 Revelation 7:9 Ephesians 4:8-10 Romans 9:5 John 6:62 Colossians 1:27 Romans 1:3-4