Titus 1:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ someone who is blameless, married only once, whose children are believers, not accused of debauchery and not rebellious.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ if any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ [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)

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ if such a man is without offense, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of self-indulgence, nor of insubordination.

Titus 1:6 Cross References

1 Timothy 3:12

Let deacons be married only once, and let them manage their children and their households well;

Titus 1:10

There are also many rebellious people, idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision;

Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Ezekiel 44:22

They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman but only a virgin of the stock of the house of Israel or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

Leviticus 21:7

They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For they are holy to their God,

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.

Luke 1:5

In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly order of Abijah. His wife was descended from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

Proverbs 28:7

Those who keep the law are wise children, but companions of gluttons shame their parents.

1 Samuel 2:22

Now Eli was very old. He heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel and how they lay with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

1 Samuel 2:11

Then they left him there before the Lord and went home to Ramah, while the boy remained to minister to the Lord in the presence of the priest Eli.

Leviticus 21:14

A widow or a divorced woman or a woman who has been defiled, a prostitute—these he shall not marry. He shall marry a virgin of his own people,

Genesis 18:19

No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

Malachi 2:15

Did God not make them one, flesh with spirit in it? And what does the one desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth.

1 Timothy 1:9

this means understanding that the law is laid down not for the righteous but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers,