Titus 1:6
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
KJV
εἴ τίς ἐστιν ἀνέγκλητος, μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἀνήρ, τέκνα ἔχων πιστά, μὴ ἐν κατηγορίᾳ ἀσωτίας ἢ ἀνυπότακτα.
Greek NT
si quis sine crimine est, unius uxoris vir, filios habens fideles, non in accusatione luxuriæ, aut non subditos.
Vulgate
if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.
ASV
If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
κατηγορία
kategoria
noun · 4×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
πιστός
pistos
adjective · 67×
τέκνον
teknon
noun · 99×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἀνέγκλητος
anegkletos
adjective · 5×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἀνυπότακτος
anupotaktos
adjective · 4×
ἀσωτία
asotia
noun · 3×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἤ
e
particle · 346×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1577"Only a baptized man (vir) validly receives sacred ordination."66 The Lord Jesus chose men (viri) to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry.67 The college of bishops, with whom the priests are united in the priesthood, makes the college of the twelve an ever-present and ever-active r…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 9:5 — Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
- 1Thess 5:14 — Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
- 1Tim 3:2 — A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
- 1Tim 3:2 — A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
- 1Tim 3:4 — One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
- 1Tim 3:10 — And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
- 1Tim 3:12 — Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
- 1Tim 5:19 — Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
- Eph 5:18 — And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
- Eph 5:18 — And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
- Ezek 44:22 — Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
- Gen 18:19 — For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he h
- Heb 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
- Mal 2:15 — And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife
- Phil 2:15 — That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
- Prov 28:7 — Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.