Titus 1:7

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And a bishop, as a steward of God, must be without offense: not arrogant, not short-tempered, not a drunkard, not violent, not desiring tainted profit,

Cross References

Genesis 49:6

Let not my soul go by their counsel, nor my glory be within their meeting. For in their fury they killed a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall.

Proverbs 14:17

The impatient will work foolishness. And a resourceful man is hated.

Proverbs 15:18

A short-tempered man provokes conflicts. Whoever is patient tempers those who are stirred up.

Proverbs 16:32

A patient man is better than a strong one. And whoever rules his soul is better than one who assaults cities.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

The end of a speech is better than the beginning. Patience is better than arrogance.

Isaiah 28:7

Yet truly, these also have been ignorant due to wine, and they have gone astray due to inebriation. The priest and the prophet have been ignorant because of inebriation. They have been absorbed by wine. They have staggered in drunkenness. They have not known the One who sees. They have been ignorant of judgment.

Ezekiel 44:21

And no priest shall drink wine, when he will be entering into the inner court.

Leviticus 10:9

"You shall not drink wine, nor anything that is able to inebriate you or your sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. For it is an everlasting precept in your generations.

Matthew 24:45

Consider this: who is a faithful and prudent servant, who has been appointed by his lord over his family, to give them their portion in due time?

Luke 12:42

So the Lord said: "Who do you think is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his Lord has appointed over his family, in order to give them their measure of wheat in due time?

Ephesians 5:18

And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,

Philippians 1:1

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.

Titus 1:5

For this reason, I left you behind in Crete: so that those things which are lacking, you would correct, and so that you would ordain, throughout the communities, priests, (just as I also ordained you)

Titus 2:3

Old women, similarly, should be in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well,

1 Peter 4:10

Just as each of you has received grace, minister in the same way to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1 Peter 5:2

pasture the flock of God that is among you, providing for it, not as a requirement, but willingly, in accord with God, and not for the sake of tainted profit, but freely,

2 Peter 2:10

even more so, those who walk after the flesh in unclean desires, and who despise proper authority. Boldly pleasing themselves, they do not dread to introduce divisions by blaspheming;