1 Timothy 3:3 Cross References - MSTC

³ not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness,

⁹ "Drink no wine nor strong drink — neither thou nor thy sons with thee — when ye go into the tabernacle of witness, lest ye die. And let it be a law forever unto your children after you:

¹⁵ Yea, and thereto before they had offered the fat, the priest's lad came and said to the man that offered, "Give flesh to roast for the priest, for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw." ¹⁶ And if any man said unto him, "Let the fat be offered according to the day, and then take as much as thine heart desireth." The lad would answer him, "Thou shalt give it me now, or else I will take it with violence." ¹⁷ And the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD. For they despised the people, and also the offering of the LORD.

³ Nevertheless, his sons followed not his steps: but turned aside after lucre and took rewards, and perverted the right.

²⁰ And when he was departed from him a furlong of ground, Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master hath spared Naaman, this Syrian, so that he hath not taken from him that which he brought! As surely as the LORD liveth, I will run after him and take somewhat." ²¹ And so Gehazi went after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him coming after him, he came down off the chariot against him, and said, "Is all well?" ²² And he said, "Yea. But my master hath sent me, saying, 'See, there be two young men come to me out of Ephraim of the children of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, one talent of silver and a couple of good garments." ²³ And Naaman said, "Adventure and take two talents of silver in two bags, with two goodly garments." — and delivered them unto two of his servants, to bear it before him. ²⁴ And he went in the dark and took it of their hands and bestowed it in the house, and let the men go, and they departed. ²⁵ Then he went and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, "Whence cometh Gehazi?" And he said, "Thy servant went no whither." ²⁶ And he said, "Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned and came of his chariot against thee? Is it a time to receive silver and to receive garments, olive trees, vineyards, oxen, sheep, menservants and maidservants? ²⁷ The leprosy therefore of Naaman cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed forever." And he went out from him a leper as white as snow.

¹⁹ These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

²⁷ The covetous man rooteth up his own house; but whoso hateth rewards, shall live.

⁸ The end of a thing is better than the beginning. The patient of spirit is better than the high minded.

¹¹ Woe unto them that rise up early to use themselves in drunkenness, and yet at night are more superfluous with wine. ¹² In those companies are harps and lutes, tabrets and pipes, and wine. But they regard not the work of the LORD, and consider not the operation of his hands.

¹ Woe be to the crown of pride, even to the drunken people of Ephraim, whose great pomp is as a flower that fadeth away upon the head of the valley of such as be in wealth, and are overladen with wine.

⁷ But they go wrong by the reason of wine, they fall and stagger because of strong drink. Yea even the priests and prophets themselves go amiss, they are drunken with wine, and weak brained through strong drink. They fail in prophesying, and stumble in judgment.

¹¹ They are shameless dogs, that be never satisfied. The shepherds also in like manner have no understanding, but every man turneth his own way, everyone after his own covetousness, with all his power. ¹² "Come," say they, "I will fetch wine, so shall we fill ourselves, that we may be drunken. And do tomorrow, like as today; yea, and much more."

¹³ "For from the least unto the most, they hang all upon covetousness: and from the prophet unto the priest, they go all about with falsity and lies.

¹⁰ Wherefore, I will give their wives unto aliens, and their fields to destroyers. For from the lowest to the highest, they follow all filthy lucre: and from the Prophet unto the priest, they deal all with lies.

²¹ All the priests that go in to the inmost court, shall drink no wine.

¹¹ If I were a fleshly fellow, and a preacher of lies, and told them that they might sit bibbing and bolling, and be drunken: O that were a Prophet for this people!

⁵ And as concerning the prophets that deceive my people, thus the LORD sayeth against them: When they have any thing to bite upon, then they preach that all shall be well. But if a man put not some thing in to their mouths, they preach of war against him.

¹¹ O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us."

¹⁰ Yea, what is he among you, that will do so much as to shut the doors, or to kindle the fire upon mine altar for naught? I have no pleasure in you, sayeth the LORD of Hosts: and as for the meat offering, I will not accept it at your hand.

¹³ And said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.'"

⁴⁵ If there be any faithful servant and wise, whom his master hath made ruler over his household, for to give them meat in season convenient; ⁴⁶ Happy is that servant: whom his master, when he cometh, shall find so doing. ⁴⁷ Verily I say unto you, he shall make him ruler over all his goods. ⁴⁸ But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, my master will defer his coming, ⁴⁹ and begin to smite his fellows: yea and to eat and to drink with the drunken: ⁵⁰ that servant's master will come in a day when he looketh not for him: and in a hour that he is not aware of, ⁵¹ and will divide him, and give him his reward with hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

⁴² And the Lord said, "If there be any faithful servant, and wise, whom his Lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their duty of meat, at due season: ⁴³ Happy is that servant, whom his master when he cometh shall find so doing. ⁴⁴ Of a truth I say unto you, That he will make him ruler over all that he hath. ⁴⁵ But and if the evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My master will defer his coming,' and shall begin to smite the servants, and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken: ⁴⁶ the Lord of that servant will come in a day, when he thinketh not, and at a hour when he is not aware, and will divide him, and will give him his reward, with the unbelievers.

³⁴ Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this world: and that, that day come on you unawares. ³⁵ For as a snare shall it come on all them that sit on the face of the earth. ³⁶ Watch therefore continually and pray, that ye may obtain grace to fly all this that shall come. And that ye may stand before the son of man."

¹² An hired servant which is not the shepherd, neither the sheep are his own, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flyeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. ¹³ The hired servant flyeth because he is a hired servant, and careth not for the sheep.

⁵ "Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?" ⁶ This said he, not that he cared for the poor: but because he was a thief, and kept the bag, and bare that which was given.

¹⁸ When Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands on them, the holy ghost was given: he offered them money, saying, ¹⁹ "Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I put the hands, he may receive the holy ghost." ²⁰ Then said Peter unto him, "Thy money perish with thee, because thou wenest that the gift of God may be obtained with money. ²¹ Thou hast neither part nor fellowship in this business. For thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

³³ I have desired no man's silver, gold, or vesture.

¹⁸ For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ: but their own bellies. And with sweet preachings and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocents:

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess: but be fulfilled with the spirit,

¹⁴ We desire you brethren warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble minded, forbear the weak, have continual patience toward all men.

⁸ Likewise must the deacons be honest, not double tongued, not given unto much drinking, neither unto filthy lucre:

¹⁰ For covetousness is the root of all evil, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and tangled themselves with many sorrows. ¹¹ But thou, which art the man of God, flee such things. Follow righteousness, godliness, love, patience, and meekness.

²⁴ But the servant of the Lord must not strive: but must be peaceable unto all men, and apt to teach, ²⁵ and one that can suffer the evil in meekness, and can inform them that resist — if that God at any time will give them repentance for to know the truth -

⁷ For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre:

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped, which pervert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, because of filthy lucre.

³ And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things,

² that they speak evil of no man, that they be no fighters, but soft, showing all meekness unto all men.

⁵ Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with that ye have already. For he verily said, "I will not fail thee, neither forsake thee."

¹ From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?

² see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind.

³ and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. Hearts they have exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children, ¹⁵ and have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, which loved the reward of unrighteousness:

¹¹ Woe be unto them, for they have followed the way of Cain, and are utterly given to the error of Balaam for lucre's sake, and are cast away in the treason of Korah.

⁹ John, your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience which is in Jesus Christ, was in the isle of Patmos for the word of God, and for the witnessing of Jesus Christ.

¹¹ And the merchants of the earth shall weep and wail in themselves, for no man will buy their ware any more, ¹² the ware of gold and silver, and precious stones, neither of pearl, and raynes, and purple, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and of iron, ¹³ and cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and bodies; and souls of men.