1 Timothy 3:8

New King James Version

Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money,

Cross References

Psalm 12:2

They speak idly everyone 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 destruction; Their throat is an open tomb; 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 destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Ezekiel 44:21

No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.

Leviticus 10:9

“Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations,

Romans 3:13

“Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”;

Philippians 1:1

Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

1 Timothy 3:12

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

1 Timothy 3:2

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

1 Timothy 5:23

No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

Titus 1:7

For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,

Titus 2:3

the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—

James 3:10

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

1 Peter 5:2

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly;