For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgement; to the end that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Titus 1:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 if any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [These elders should be] men who are of unquestionable integrity and are irreproachable, the husband of [but] one wife, whose children are [well trained and are] believers, not open to the accusation of being loose in morals and conduct or unruly and disorderly. American Standard Version (1901) if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly. Common English Bible Elders should be without fault. They should be faithful to their spouse, and have faithful children who can’t be accused of self-indulgence or rebelliousness. Catholic Public Domain Version if such a man is without offense, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of self-indulgence, nor of insubordination. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly. |
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgement; to the end that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: But he that is a companion of gluttonous men shameth his father.
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.
A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, an harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.
They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
There was in the days of Herod, king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah: and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,
And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how that they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting.