Titus 1:6
if such a man is without offense, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of self-indulgence, nor of insubordination.
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Genesis 18:19For I know that he will instruct his sons, and his household after him, to keep to the way of the Lord, and to act with judgment and justice, so that, for the sake of Abraham, the Lord may bring about all the things that he has spoken to him.”
Leviticus 21:14But a widow, or one who has been repudiated or defiled, or also a mistress, he shall not accept, but only a maiden from among his own people.
1 Samuel 2:22Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all of Israel, and how they were sleeping with the women who were waiting at the door of the tabernacle.
1 Samuel 3:12In that day, I will raise up against Eli all the things that I have spoken over his house. I will begin, and I will finish.
Ezekiel 44:22And they shall not take as wife a widow or one who has been divorced. Instead, they shall take virgins from the offspring of the house of Israel. But they may also take a widow, if she is the widow of a priest.
Luke 1:5There was, in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zechariah, of the section of Abijah, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
Matthew Henry on Titus 1:6
Ordination of Elders. ( a. d. 66.) 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: Here is the end expressed, I. More generally: For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldst set in order the things that are wanting. This was the business of evangelists (in which office Titus was), to water where the apostles had planted ( 1 Cor. iii. 6 ), furthering and finishing what they had begun; so much… Read the whole commentary →