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1 Timothy 3:8
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1 Timothy 3:8
8Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
8Likewise must the Deacons bee graue, not double tongued, not giuen to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre,
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Timothy 3:8
In like manner; also or similarly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons appointed to service; servants or ministers in the office named by the context.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A place of burial; serious, weighty, or sober; as a verb, to carve or engrave.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A great quantity or degree; abundant in amount.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Having an eager, grasping, or excessive appetite, whether for food, prey, gain, or money.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Obtained by base and dishonest means; Polluted; defiled by sinful practices; morally impure; Dirty; foul; unclean; nasty.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Gain or profit, especially when sought dishonestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study1PAUL and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
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Open the full verse study3Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
4But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
5¶ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
6Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
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Open the full verse study3Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
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Open the full verse study23Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
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Open the full verse study3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
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Open the full verse study9Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
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Open the full verse study12Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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Open the full verse study21Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
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Open the full verse study10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
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Open the full verse study2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
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Open the full verse study2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
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Open the full verse study7For 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;
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Open the full verse study2Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
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Open the full verse study9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
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Open the full verse study19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
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Open the full verse study13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
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