1 Timothy 3:12

1 Timothy 3:12
Let Deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well.

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Leviticus 21:7
They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.

Leviticus 21:14
A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people.

Ezekiel 44:22
And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

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Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

Deuteronomy 11:19
Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:

Deuteronomy 31:13
And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

Psalms 78:5
He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

Proverbs 13:24
He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

Proverbs 19:18
Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

Proverbs 22:15
Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

Proverbs 23:13
Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

Isaiah 28:9
To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?

John 21:15
Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.

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Proverbs 18:22
Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

Jeremiah 29:6
Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

Malachi 2:15
...So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

1 Timothy 5:14
So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,

Hebrews 13:4
Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

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Acts 6:6
These they took to the Apostles, who, after prayer, put their hands on them.

Acts 10:2
A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.

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.

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 3:14
I am writing these things to you, though I am hoping to come to you before long;

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.

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;

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