1 Timothy 3:11
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11 (A)Their wives likewise[a] must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, (B)faithful in all things.
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- 1 Timothy 3:11 Or Wives likewise, or Women likewise
Titus 2:3
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3 (A)Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, (B)not slanderers (C)or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
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Titus 3:2
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2 (A)to speak evil of no one, (B)to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and (C)to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
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2 Timothy 3:3
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3 (A)heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, (B)not loving good,
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1 Timothy 3:2
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2 Therefore (A)an overseer[a] must be above reproach, (B)the husband of one wife,[b] (C)sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, (D)hospitable, (E)able to teach,
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- 1 Timothy 3:2 Or bishop; Greek episkopos; a similar term occurs in verse 1
- 1 Timothy 3:2 Or a man of one woman; also verse 12
Jeremiah 9:4
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4 (A)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every (B)brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor (C)goes about as a slanderer.
Proverbs 10:18
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18 The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,
and whoever utters slander is a fool.
Revelation 12:9-10
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9 And (A)the great dragon was thrown down, (B)that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, (C)the deceiver of the whole world—(D)he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now (E)the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers[a] has been thrown down, (F)who accuses them day and night before our God.
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- Revelation 12:10 Or brothers and sisters
2 Timothy 4:5
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5 As for you, (A)always be sober-minded, (B)endure suffering, do the work of (C)an evangelist, (D)fulfill your ministry.
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1 Timothy 6:2
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2 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are (A)brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.
False Teachers and True Contentment
(B)Teach and urge these things.
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1 Timothy 1:12
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Christ Jesus Came to Save Sinners
12 I thank him (A)who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, (B)appointing me to his service,
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1 Thessalonians 5:6-8
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6 So then (A)let us not sleep, as others do, but let us (B)keep awake and (C)be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, (D)are drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, (E)having put on the breastplate of (F)faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
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John 6:70
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70 Jesus answered them, (A)“Did I not choose you, (B)the twelve? And yet one of you is (C)a devil.”
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Luke 1:5-6
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Birth of John the Baptist Foretold
5 (A)In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah,[a] (B)of (C)the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 And they were both (D)righteous before God, walking (E)blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
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- Luke 1:5 Greek Zacharias
Matthew 4:1
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The Temptation of Jesus
4 (A)Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness (B)to be tempted by the devil.
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Ezekiel 44:22
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22 (A)They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
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Proverbs 25:13
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13 Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest
is (A)a faithful messenger to those who send him;
he refreshes the soul of his masters.
Psalm 101:5
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5 Whoever slanders his neighbor (A)secretly
I will (B)destroy.
Whoever has a (C)haughty look and an (D)arrogant heart
I will not endure.
Psalm 50:20
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20 You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother's son.
Psalm 15:3
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3 who (A)does not slander with his tongue
and does no evil to his neighbor,
nor (B)takes up a reproach against his friend;
Leviticus 21:13-15
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13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.[a] 14 A widow, (A)or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin[b] of his own people, 15 that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for (B)I am the Lord who sanctifies him.”
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- Leviticus 21:13 Or a young wife
- Leviticus 21:14 Hebrew young woman
Leviticus 21:7
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7 (A)They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman (B)divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
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