1 Timothy 3:7

Coverdale Bible (1535)

He must also haue a good reporte of them which are without, lest he fall in to the rebuke and snare of the euell speaker.

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  • 2 Cor 8:21 : 21 and therfore make we prouision for honest thinges, not onely before the LORDE, but also before men.
  • 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 and to turne agayne from the snare of the deuell, which are holden in preson of him at his will.
  • 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Be not ye an occasion of fallinge, nether to the Iewes, ner to the Gentyles, ner to the congregacion of God,
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 For they that wylbe riche, fall in to the teptacion and snare, and in to many folisshe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in destruccion and damnacion.
  • 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 Let vs geue no man occasion of euell, that oure office be not euell spoken of:
  • Titus 2:5 : 5 to be discrete, chaste, husswyfly, good, obedient vnto their awne hussbandes, that the worde of God be not euell spoken of.
  • Titus 2:8 : 8 worde which can not be rebuked: that he which withstodeth maye be ashamed, hauynge nothinge in you that he maye disprayse.
  • 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 Yf ye be reuyled for ye name of Christ, blessed are ye, for ye sprete (which is ye sprete of glory & of God) resteth vpon you. On their parte he is euell spoken of, but on yor parte he is praysed. 15 But se that none of you suffre as a murthurer, or as a thefe, or as an euell doer, or as a busy body in other mens matters. 16 Yf eny man suffre as a Christen man, let him not be ashamed, but let him prayse God on this behalfe.
  • Col 4:5 : 5 Walke wysely towarde them that are without, and redeme ye tyme.
  • 1 Thess 4:12 : 12 that ye maye walke honestly towarde the that are without, and that nothinge be lackynge vnto you.
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Abstayne fro all suspicious thinges.
  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 I wil therfore that the yonger wemen mary, beare children, gyde the house, to geue ye aduersary no occasion to speake euell.
  • 1 Tim 5:24-25 : 24 Some mes synnes are ope, so that they maye be iudged afore hande: but some mens (synnes) shal be manifest herafter. 25 Likewyse also good workes are manifest afore hade: and they that are otherwyse can not be hyd.
  • 1 Sam 2:24 : 24 Not so my childre, this is no good reporte that I heare, ye cause the people of the LORDE to offende.
  • Mark 4:11 : 11 And he sayde vnto the: Vnto you it is geuen, to knowe the mystery of the kyngdome of God: but vnto them that are without, all thinges happen by parables,
  • Acts 6:3 : 3 Wherfore brethren, loke out amonge you seue men, that are of honeste reporte, and full of the holy goost and wyssdome, whom we maye appoynte to this nedefull busynes.
  • Acts 10:22 : 22 They sayde: Cornelius the captayne, a iust man and one that feareth God, and of good reporte amoge all the people of the Iewes, was warned by an holy angell, to sende for the in to his house, and to heare wordes of the.
  • Acts 22:12 : 12 There was one Ananias, a deuoute man after the lawe, which had a good reporte of all the Iewes that dwelt there,
  • 1 Cor 5:12 : 12 For what haue I to do to iudge them that are without? Do ye not iudge the that are within?
  • 3 John 1:12 : 12 Demetrius hath good reporte of all men, and of the trueth: yee and we oure selues also beare recorde, and ye knowe that oure recorde is true.

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    1This is a true sayege: Yf a ma covet ye office of a Bisshoppe, he desyreth a good worke.

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    3Not geuen to moch wyne, no fighter, not geuen to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorrynge stryfe, abhorrynge couetousnes:

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    5(But yf a man can not rule his owne house, how shal he care for the congregacion of God?)

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    8Likewyse must the mynisters be honest, not double tonged, not geuen to moch wyne, nether vnto fylthie lucre,

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    11Euen so must their wyues be honest, not euell speakers, but sober and faithfull in all thinges.

    12Let the mynisters be, euery one the hussbade of one wyfe, and soch as rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.

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    6Yf eny be blamelesse, the hussbande of one wife, hauynge faithfull children, which are not slaundred or ryote, nether are dishobedient.

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    6Exhorte the yonge men likewyse, that they be sober mynded.

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    8worde which can not be rebuked: that he which withstodeth maye be ashamed, hauynge nothinge in you that he maye disprayse.

    9Exhorte the seruauntes, to be obedient vnto their masters, to please in all thinges, not answeringe agayne,

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    3Let vs geue no man occasion of euell, that oure office be not euell spoken of:

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    7And these thinges commaunde, that they maye be without blame.

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    19Agaynst an Elder receaue none accusacion, but vnder two or thre witnesses.

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    16Se therfore that youre treasure be not euell spoke of.

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    13This witnesse is true. Wherfore rebuke them sharply, yt they maye be sounde in the faith,

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