Titus 1:7

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

For it behooveth a bishop to be without crime, [as] a dispenser of God, not proud, not wrathful, not given to drunkenness, not [a] smiter, not covetous of foul winning;

Cross References

Genesis 49:6

my soul come not into the counsel of them, and my glory be not in the congregation of them; for in their strong vengeance, they killed a man, and in their [own] will, they under-mined the wall;

Proverbs 14:17

A man unpatient shall work folly; and a guileful man is odious.

Proverbs 15:18

A wrathful man raiseth chidings; he that is patient, assuageth chidings that were raised.

Proverbs 16:32

A patient man is better than a strong man; and he that is lord of his soul, is better than an overcomer of cities.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be thou not swift to be wroth; for ire resteth in the bosom of a fool.

Isaiah 28:7

But also they knew not for wine, and erred for drunkenness; the priest and prophet knew not for drunken-ness; they were sopped up of wine, they erred in drunkenness; they knew not a prophet, they knew not doom.

Ezekiel 44:21

And each priest shall not drink wine, when he shall enter into the inner foreyard.

Leviticus 10:9

Thou and thy sons shall not drink wine, and all thing that may make drunken, when ye shall enter into the tabernacle of witnessing, lest ye die; for it is everlasting behest into your generations,

Matthew 24:45

Who guessest thou is a true [or a faithful] servant and prudent, whom his lord ordained on his meine, to give them meat in time?

Luke 12:42

And the Lord said, Who, guessest thou, is a true [or a faithful] dispenser, and prudent, whom the lord hath ordained on his meine, to give them in time a measure of wheat?

Ephesians 5:18

And do not ye be drunk of wine, in which is lechery [or is luxury], but be ye filled with the Holy Ghost;

Philippians 1:1

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy men in Christ Jesus, that be at Philippi, with bishops and deacons,

Titus 1:5

For cause of this thing I left thee at Crete, that thou amend those things that fail, and ordain priests by cities, as also I assigned to thee.

Titus 2:3

also old women in holy habit, not slanderers [or backbiters], not serving much to wine, well-teaching, that they teach prudence.

1 Peter 4:10

each man as he hath received grace, ministering it into each other [or ministering each to other], as good dispensers of the manyfold grace of God.

1 Peter 5:2

feed ye the flock of God, that is among you, and purvey ye, not as constrained, but willfully, by God; not for love of foul winning, but willfully,

2 Peter 2:10

but more them that walk after the flesh, in coveting of uncleanness, and despise lordshipping, and be bold, pleasing themselves, and dread not to bring in sects, blaspheming;