Titus 1:6
If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 18:19For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.
Leviticus 21:14But a widow or one that is divorced, or defiled, or a harlot, he shall not take, but a maid of his own people :
1 Samuel 2:22Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the tabernacle:
1 Samuel 3:12In that day I will raise up against Heli all the things I have spoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will make an end.
Ezekiel 44:22Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor one that is divorced, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel: but they may take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest.
Luke 1:5There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zachary, of the course of Abia; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name 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 →