KJV King James Version
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.
if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.
if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate—
3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
4 To Titus, [mine] own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
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