For I am afraid least when I come, I should not find you such as I could wish, and I should be found to you such as ye would not: least there should be contentions, emulations, animosities, strifes, thwartings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: and least,

lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, strifes, emulations, animosities, contentions, divisions,

But now put away all these also, wrath, animosity, malice, calumny, and filthy discourse out of your mouth.

but foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they produce quarrels; for the servant of the Lord ought not to wrangle,

For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain:

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

but if ye have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth;

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?

Clamour

Hearing this and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people: and they laid hold on Paul, and dragged him out of the temple; and immediately the gates were shut.

And they heard him to this word, and then they exalted their voice, saying, Away with such a fellow from the earth; for it is not fit that he should live.

hospitable, able to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain, moderate, not quarrelsome,

he is proud, knowing nothing, but is delirious about questions and strifes of words: from which cometh envy, contention, calumnies, wicked suspicions, perverse debates of men corrupted in mind,

Evil speaking

being filled with all injustice, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malignity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and every evil habit; whisperers,

And their wives likewise grave, not slanderers, sober, and faithful in all things.

And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tatlers also and busy-bodies, talking of things unbecoming them.

without natural affection, perfidious, false accusers, intemperate, savage, enemies to the good, traitors,

the aged women likewise in behaviour as becometh saints, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

to slander no man, to avoid contention, to be gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

Speak not against one another, my brethren; he that speaketh against his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Therefore laying aside all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisies,

especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority; who, being audacious and self-willed, are not afraid to speak evil of dignities:

So these vile dreamers also defile the flesh, despise authority, and speak evil of dignities.

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.

With

being filled with all injustice, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malignity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and every evil habit; whisperers,

Wherefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavening of sincerity and truth.

My brethren, be not children in sense: but in malice be infants, and in your judgements shew yourselves to be men.

But now put away all these also, wrath, animosity, malice, calumny, and filthy discourse out of your mouth.

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, going astray, enslaved to various disorderly appetites and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

and why did he slay him? because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

General references

be ye therefore merciful as your heavenly Father also is merciful.

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