Titus 1:6

English Standard Version 2016

if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

Cross References

1 Timothy 3:12

Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

Titus 1:10

For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.

Ephesians 5:18

And 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 virgins of the offspring 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 the priest is holy to his God.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Luke 1:5

In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

Proverbs 28:7

The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

1 Samuel 2:22

Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

1 Samuel 2:11

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli the priest.

Leviticus 21:14

A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people,

Genesis 18:19

For I have chosen him, that he may command 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 to Abraham what he has promised him.”

Malachi 2:15

Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.

1 Timothy 1:9

understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,