 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God ; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; holding fast the faithful...  The Gospel Treasury ... - Page 2831810Full view - About this book
 | Henry Walter - Great Britain - 1828 - 524 pages
...worldly sovereigns. For Anselm read that a bishop should be blameless, as the steward of GOD, a later of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate, holding fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught *. Whereas the archbishop could not but perceive, that the man preferred by kings, unless during some... | |
 | Jacobus Arminius - Theology - 1828 - 778 pages
...hold with so much presumption. For it becomes a Bishop and a Teacher of the Church, not only to hold fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by his sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers, (Titus i, 9, 7,) but likewise not... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...bishop must be blameless, &c. holding fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught (or in teaching), that he may be "able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers : for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they... | |
 | Martin Luther - Sermons - 1829 - 418 pages
...filthy lucre ; 8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate ; 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught,...he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. THOSE who are called to preach the word of God, may here learn what their... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...hospitality, a lover of 8 good men, sober, just, holy, temperate, ' holding fast the faithful word 9 as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exh'ort and to convince the gainsayers. For there are many unruly and 10 vain talkers and deceivers, especially... | |
 | 1829 - 448 pages
...lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate ; 9 Holding fast the faithful as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. 10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially... | |
 | Alberto Ferreiro, Thomas C. Oden - Religion - 2003 - 400 pages
...seek a knowledge of the Scriptures: "A bishop," he says, must hold fast "the faithful word as he has been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers."14 In fact, lack of education in a clergyman prevents him from doing well... | |
 | David K. Lee - Religion - 2002 - 242 pages
...not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;...he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers, (Titus 1:5-9) 1. He must be blameless (dvEdAnM^Tov) 200 (I Tim. 3:2, Titus... | |
 | Brenda Stanford Southerland - Religion - 2002 - 110 pages
...not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality; a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;...he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers." Thank You, "he/she walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth... | |
 | Daniel S. Udrescu - Business & Economics - 2002 - 282 pages
...not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;...he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers!' The good choice of a steward is one that will build, not one that would... | |
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