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.

Cross-references · 22

• Titus 2:3and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
• Titus 3:2to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
• 1 Tim 3:2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
• 2 Tim 3:3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
• Prov 10:18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• Lev 21:13–15“‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.
• 2 Tim 4:5But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
• Jer 9:4“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
• Matt 4:1Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
• Ps 50:20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
• Ps 15:3He who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
• Prov 25:13As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
• 1 Tim 1:12And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;
• Luke 1:5–6There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
• Ps 101:5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
• 1 Tim 6:2Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
• Rev 12:9–10The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
• Lev 21:7“‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. They shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
• 1 Th 5:6–8so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
• John 6:70Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
• Ezek 44:22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

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