For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found such as you wish not; lest there shall be strife, envy, anger, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, pride, dissensions;

idolatry, magic, enmities, strife, envy, anger, contentions, dissensions, heresies,

but now do you put away also all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, vile conversation out of your mouth;

But foolish and trifling disputes avoid, knowing that they produce contentions;

For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,

Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not against the truth.

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?

Clamour

And hearing this they were full of wrath, and cried, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians!

And all the city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people, and taking hold of Paul they dragged him without the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.

And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voice saying, Take away such a man from the earth; it is not fit that he should live.

not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious,

he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

Evil speaking

being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers,

The women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, circumspect, faithful in all things.

and at the same time also, being idle, they learn to go from house to house, and not only are they idle, they are also tattlers and mischief makers, saying what they ought not.

without natural affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle, despisers of the good,

that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming holiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,

to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

Speak not one against one another, brothers. He that speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Laying aside therefore all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings,

but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise goverment. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories,

In like manner also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject government, and blaspheme glories.

And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, Now has come the salvation and power and kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ, for the accuser of the brothers, that accused them day and night before God, has been cast [to the earth].

With

being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers,

Let us therefore keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with a leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.

but now do you put away also all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, vile conversation out of your mouth;

For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another;

not as Cain was of the evil one and killed his brother; and why did he kill him? because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

General references

Be merciful, as your father is merciful;

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.