1 Timothy 3:6
Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.
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1 Timothy 3:6
Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.
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1 Timothy 3:1
This is a true saying, A man desiring the position of a Bishop has a desire for a good work.
1 Timothy 3:2
The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;
1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
1 Timothy 3:4
Ruling his house well, having his children under control with all serious behaviour;
1 Timothy 3:5
(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
1 Timothy 3:6
Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.
1 Timothy 3:7
And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.
1 Timothy 3:8
Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;
1 Timothy 3:9
Keeping the secret of the faith in a heart free from sin.
Titus 1:5
I did not take you with me when I went away from Crete, so that you might do what was necessary to put things in order there, placing men in authority over the churches in every town, as I said to you;
Titus 1:6
Men having a good record, husbands of one wife, whose children are of the faith, children of whom it may not be said that they are given to loose living or are uncontrolled.
Titus 1:7
For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;
2 Timothy 2:2
And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others.
Matthew 13:52
And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.
1 Timothy 3:15
But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.
Ezra 7:10
For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.
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1 Timothy 6:4
He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,
2 Timothy 3:4
False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;
1 Timothy 5:12
And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;
Matthew 12:20
The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.
1 Timothy 1:19
Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith:
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2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;
1 John 3:8
The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.
Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.
John 8:44
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.
Matthew 13:39
And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.
Luke 10:18
And he said, I was watching for Satan, falling from heaven like a star.
2 Corinthians 4:4
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
Ephesians 4:27
And do not give way to the Evil One.
Ephesians 6:11
Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
2 Timothy 2:26
And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.
James 2:19
You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.
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1 Timothy 3:10
And let these first be put to the test; then let them become Deacons if there is nothing against them.
1 Timothy 3:11
Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.
1 Timothy 3:12
Let Deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well.
1 Timothy 3:13
For those who have done good work as Deacons get for themselves a good position and become free from fear in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 5:22
Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean.
Titus 1:8
But opening his house freely to guests; a lover of what is good, serious-minded, upright, holy, self-controlled;
Titus 1:9
Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the doubters.
Titus 2:3
That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,
Acts 14:23
And when they had made selection of some to be rulers in every church, and had given themselves to prayer and kept themselves from food, they put them into the care of the Lord in whom they had faith.
Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church:
Revelation 2:1
To the angel of the church in Ephesus say: These things says he who has the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the middle of the seven gold lights:
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Deuteronomy 8:14
Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;
2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.
Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:
Isaiah 2:12
For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;
2 Kings 14:10
It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
2 Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah did not do as had been done to him; for his heart was lifted up in pride; and so wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.
Ezekiel 28:5
By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:
Ezekiel 28:17
Your heart was lifted up because you were beautiful, you made your wisdom evil through your sin: I have sent you down, even to the earth; I have made you low before kings, so that they may see you.
Deuteronomy 17:20
So that his heart may not be lifted up over his countrymen, and he may not be turned away from the orders, to one side or the other: but that his life and the lives of his children may be long in his kingdom in Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:31
However, in the business of the representatives sent by the rulers of Babylon to get news of the wonder which had taken place in the land, God gave up guiding him, testing him to see what was in his heart.
Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.
Ezekiel 31:10
For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high,
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:
Daniel 5:22
And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this;
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Daniel 5:23
But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
1 Peter 5:5
And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
Habakkuk 2:4
As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith.
2 Corinthians 12:7
And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.
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Numbers 8:24
This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting;
Numbers 8:25
But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up their work and do no more;
Numbers 8:26
But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in connection with the Levites and their work.
1 Chronicles 23:24
These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord.
Luke 3:23
And Jesus at this time was about thirty years old, being the son (as it seemed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
Numbers 4:3
All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.
Numbers 4:35
Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting;
1 Chronicles 23:3
And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
1 Chronicles 23:26
And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites.
1 Chronicles 23:27
So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.
1 Chronicles 28:13
And for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work in connection with the worship of the house of the Lord, and all the vessels used in the house of the Lord;
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Isaiah 14:12
How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
Isaiah 14:13
For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.
Isaiah 14:14
I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
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John 3:19
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
Romans 5:18
So then, as the effect of one act of wrongdoing was that punishment came on all men, even so the effect of one act of righteousness was righteousness of life for all men.
1 Corinthians 11:34
If any man is in need of food, let him take his meal in his house; so that you may not come together to your damage. And the rest I will put in order when I come.
Titus 3:11
Clearly he is in error and a sinner, being self-judged.
James 5:12
But most of all, my brothers, do not take oaths, not by the heaven, or by the earth, or by any other thing: but let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No: so that you may not be judged.
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