1 Timothy 3:8

Modern King James Version

Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,

Cross References

Psalm 12:2

They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Psalm 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 50:19

You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Ezekiel 44:21

And every priest shall not drink wine when they enter the inner court.

Leviticus 10:9

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die, a statute forever throughout your generations.

Romans 3:13

"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

Philippians 1:1

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

1 Timothy 3:12

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and households well.

1 Timothy 3:2

Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching,

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

1 Timothy 5:23

Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake, and for your frequent infirmities.

Titus 1:7

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;

Titus 2:3

Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good;

James 3:10

Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

1 Peter 5:2

Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;