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

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

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Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man,

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if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, (A)having faithful children not accused of [a]dissipation or insubordination.

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 1:6 debauchery, lit. incorrigibility

11 So He said to them, (A)“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. 12 And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

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(A)And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for [a]sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:9 Or fornication

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