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1 Timothy 3:2
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1 Timothy 3:2
2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
2A Bishop then must be blamelesse, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, ‖of good behauiour, giuen to hospitalitie, apt to teach;
- Or, modest.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Timothy 3:2
Without fault or a valid ground for censure in the matter described.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A married man in relation to his wife; also one who manages or cultivates carefully.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Watchful, alert, and attentive to possible danger or duty.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Temperate, prudent, and governed by sound judgment.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
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Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
hospitality
Generous reception and care of guests or strangers.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Fit, suitable, or ready; inclined or able.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To instruct, inform, train, show, counsel, or communicate knowledge or doctrine.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
7For 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;
8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
9Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
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Open the full verse study24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
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Open the full verse study13Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
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Open the full verse study9Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
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Open the full verse study9Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
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Open the full verse study8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
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Open the full verse study10And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
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Open the full verse study2That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
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Open the full verse study7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
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Open the full verse study2Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
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Open the full verse study15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
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Open the full verse study3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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Open the full verse study14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
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Open the full verse study6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
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Open the full verse study10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
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