1 Timothy 3:11

The women are to be dignified, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful. Whether these are deacons' wives or women deacons is debated.

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• Titus 2:3Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
• Titus 3:2to malign no one, and to be peaceable and gentle, showing full consideration to everyone.
• 1 Tim 3:2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
• 2 Tim 3:3unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,
• Prov 10:18The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• Lev 21:13–15The woman he marries must be a virgin.
• 2 Tim 4:5But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
• Jer 9:4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
• Matt 4:1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
• Ps 50:20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
• Ps 15:3who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,
• Prov 25:13Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.
• 1 Tim 1:12I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, that He considered me faithful and appointed me to service.
• Luke 1:5–6In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.
• Ps 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
• 1 Tim 6:2Those who have believing masters should not show disrespect because they are brothers, but should serve them all the more, since those receiving their good service are beloved believers. Teach and encourage these principles.
• Rev 12:9–10And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
• Lev 21:7A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
• 1 Th 5:6–8So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
• John 6:70Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
• Ezek 44:22And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow of a priest.

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