Titus 1:6

An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, and the father of children marked by faith and good behavior. It matters because a leader's home life is evidence of his fitness to shepherd the church.

Cross-references · 17

• 1 Tim 3:2–7The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
• 1 Tim 3:12Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
• Prov 28:7Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
• Titus 1:6–8if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
• Gen 18:19For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
• Eph 5:18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
• 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.
• Lev 21:14A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.
• 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.
• Titus 1:10For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
• 1 Th 5:14We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
• Mal 2:15Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
• 1 Sam 2:29–30Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
• 1 Sam 2:22Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
• 1 Sam 3:12–13In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
• 1 Sam 2:11Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.
• Luke 1:5There 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.

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