{"passage":["1 Timothy 3:2"],"results":[{"document":"lbcf1689","id":"26.10","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1689/paragraphs/26.10","segments":[{"text":"Hospitality towards others; and this is required by the","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2"]}]},{"document":"lbcf1689-modernized","id":"26.10","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1689-modernized/paragraphs/26.10","segments":[{"text":"Hospitality towards others; and this is required by the","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2"]}]},{"document":"lbcf1677","id":"26.10","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1677/paragraphs/26.10","segments":[{"text":"Hospitality toward others; and this is required by the","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2"]}]},{"document":"phila1742","id":"27.10","url":"/api/v1/documents/phila1742/paragraphs/27.10","segments":[{"text":"Hospitality towards others; and this is required by the","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2"]}]},{"document":"flcf1644","id":"36.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1644/paragraphs/36.1","segments":[{"text":"Pastors, Teachers, Elders, Deacons, being qualified according to the Word, as those which Christ has appointed in his Testament, for the feeding, governing, serving, and building up of his Church, and that none other have power to impose them, either these or any other.","proofs":["1 Timothy 3"]}]},{"document":"flcf1646","id":"36.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1646/paragraphs/36.1","segments":[{"text":"as those which Christ hath appointed in his Testament, for the feeding, governing, serving, and building up of his Church, and that none have any power to","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2, 6–8"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"158","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/158","segments":[{"text":"The word of God is to be preached only by such as are sufficiently gifted,","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2, 6"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"158","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/158","segments":[{"text":"The word of God is to be preached only by such as are sufficiently gifted,","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2, 6"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"75","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/75","segments":[{"text":"and which might have been better improved to the relieving of the poor, for the furtherance of their own account in the other world.","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"(3) Because, the Lord hath taken a special care to bestow peculiar gifts and qualifications upon these persons, so designed for the Ministery; and that for the good of the Souls of his People, above what is required in other Saints. Would ever the Lord have bestowed such qualifications, if he had not appointed some for such an Office? Though gifts as gifts do not alone invest into such an office, yet when they are strictly required, they argue, that there is an Office. They must be apt to teach others;","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"(4) Because, a Bishop must be the husband of one wife;","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2, 4"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"And he hath appointed a Ministry to continue even after the Apostles dayes, as is evident from","proofs":["1 Timothy 3"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"(8) If the Pope be not so much as a Bishop of a particular Church, he cannot be universal Bishop. The first is true, because he doth not perform the office of a Bishop, which is set down;","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"(9) Because, there is not one approven example, in all the Word of GOD, for a gifted brother to Preach without a call; and therefore seing it is not done in Faith, it must be Sin. Must every Fellow that takes a laxit in his tongue, go up to the Pulpit and ease himself? (10) Because, there are Precepts and Rules set down in Scripture, for all the Ages of the church, to the end of the world, anent the calling of men to be Ministers of the Gospel;","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2–3, 6–7"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Men of good behauiour, not incontinent, not giuen to wine, not strikers, not couetous,","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2"]},{"text":"finally men of speciall gifts, apt to teach,","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"32","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/32","segments":[{"text":"From the newe Testament, by the words of S. Paul, who saith, A Bishop must be the husband of one wife; one that hath childrē vnder obediēce.","proofs":["1 Timothy 3"]}]}]}