Thematic Bible: Ministers should
Thematic Bible
Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Attend to
Hold firm to thyself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this thou will save both thyself and those who hear thee.
Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Hold, in sincerity
For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.
Concerning all things presenting thyself a pattern of good works in the doctrine: incorruption, dignity, incorruptibility,
Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Hold steadfastly
Hold the pattern of sound words that thou heard from me, in faith and love in Christ Jesus.
holding firm the faithful word according to the teaching, so that he may also be able to exhort by the sound doctrine, and to correct those who contradict.
Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Continue in
Hold firm to thyself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this thou will save both thyself and those who hear thee.
Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Be nourished up in
Laying these things down to the brothers, thou will be a good helper of Jesus Christ, reared up in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine that thou have followed.
Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Speak things which become
Holiness » Ministers should » Exhort to
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.
As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance, but according to the Holy Man, he who called you, ye yourselves also become holy in all conduct, because it is written, Become ye holy, since I am holy.
Holiness » Ministers should » Avoid » Everything » Inconsistent with
They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the offerings of LORD made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from there. Touch no unclean thing. Go ye out of the midst of her. Cleanse yourselves, ye who bear the vessels of LORD.
Holiness » Ministers should » Be examples of
Let no man disparage thy youth, but become an example of the faithful, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Verse Concepts
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Holiness » Ministers should » Possess
but a lover of strangers, a lover of good, serious minded, just, devout, self-controlled,
Ignorance of God » Ministers should » Compassionate those in
Who can be gentle to those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself is also encompassed with weakness.
And a bondman of Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in mildness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth,
Ignorance of God » Ministers should » Labor to remove
For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you.
Joy » Ministers should » Have, in the faith and holiness of their people
Great is my boldness toward you, great is my pride for you. I have been filled with encouragement. I over-abound with joy in all our affliction.
For what thanks can we repay God about you, for all the joy in which we rejoiced because of you before our God,
I have no greater joy than these things that I hear my children walking in truth.
Joy » Ministers should » Esteem their people as their
So then, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in Lord this way beloved.
Joy » Ministers should » Promote, in their people
And having been convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and will continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith.
Not because we lord over your faith, but are co-workmen of your joy, for by faith ye stand.
Joy » Ministers should » Desire to render an account with
Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
Have confidence in those who lead you, and yield yourselves, for they watch for your souls as men who will render account, so that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this is unprofitable for you.
Verse Concepts
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Joy » Ministers should » Pray for, for their people
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for ye to abound in hope in the power of Holy Spirit.
Verse Concepts
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PeaceTrusting God's PlanPeace And ComfortFaith And TrustPowerHope And FaithPeace And StrengthFaith Hope And LoveTrusting God In Difficult TimesHaving FaithStrength And FaithJoy As A Fruit Of The SpiritJoy And HappinessTrusting OthersHope KjvHope And LoveBelieving In YourselfFaith In GodGod's Plan For UsGod Being With YoughostsbeliefjoyfuljoyfulnessFinding Comfort In God
Joy » Ministers should » Come to their people with
so that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and be rested with you.
Joy » Ministers should » Finish their course with
But I make nothing of the matter, nor do I hold my life precious to myself, so as to fully complete my course with joy, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly testify the good-news of the grace of God.
Verse Concepts
Meekness » Ministers should » Instruct opposers with
And a bondman of Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in mildness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth,
Meekness » Ministers should » Follow after
But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, mildness.
Meekness » Ministers should » Urge, on their people
Remind them to be submissive to principle offices and positions of authority, to be obedient, to be prepared for every good work, to slander no man, to be noncontentious, meek, showing all mildness to all men.
Offence » Ministers should » Be cautious of giving
giving not one cause of stumbling in anything, so that the ministry may not be criticized,
Offence » Ministers should » Remove that which causes
And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way. Take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
Righteousness » Ministers should » Pray for the fruit of, in their people
And he who supplies seed to the man who sows, and bread for eating, may he supply and multiply your seed, and may he increase the fruits of your righteousness,
having been filled with fruits of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, for glory and praise of God.
Righteousness » Ministers should » Follow after
But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, mildness.
And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.
Verse Concepts
Righteousness » Ministers should » Be armed with
in word of truth, in power of God, through the weapons of righteousness of the right hand and of the left,
Righteousness » Ministers should » Be preachers of
and he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, the eighth, a herald of righteousness, when he brought on a flood upon the world of the irreverent,
Righteousness » Ministers should » Be clothed with
Righteousness » Ministers should » Reason of
And as he discoursed about righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment going to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, Go now, and having a convenient time, I will summon thee.
Self-will and stubbornness » Ministers should » Pray that their people may be forgiven for
And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their profaneness, nor to their sin,
Self-will and stubbornness » Ministers should » Warn their people against
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if ye hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, according to the day of the trial in the wilderness, where your fathers challenged me, tested me, and saw my works forty years. read more.
Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways. So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest. Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.
Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways. So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest. Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.
Self-will and stubbornness » Ministers should » Be without
For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to angry, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,
national Sins » Ministers should » Testify against
Cry aloud, spare not. Lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it on a scroll, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.
And he said to me, Son of man, I send thee to the sons of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day. And the sons are impudent and stiff hearted. I send thee to them, and thou shall say to them, Thus says lord LORD. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
And thou, son of man, will thou judge, will thou judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
national Sins » Ministers should » Mourn over
Let the priests, the ministers of LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and do not give thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among t
Thus says lord LORD: Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride. And my eye shall weep greatly, and run down with tears, because LORD's flock is taken captive.
And it came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
national Sins » Ministers should » Pray for forgiveness of
And Moses returned to LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made gods of gold for them. Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin--, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou have written.
national Sins » Ministers should » Try to turn the people from
But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Strife » Ministers should » Reprove
For it was declared to me about you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?
Now in this that is commanded, I do not praise you, because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse. For indeed first, when ye come together in a congregation, I hear divisions are present among you, and I partly believe it.
Strife » Ministers should » Warn against
Now I beseech you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and there be no divisions among you, but ye may be thoroughly prepared in the same mind and in the same understanding.
Remind them of these things, solemnly testifying in the sight of the Lord, not to brawl verbally, to nothing useful, to the ruin of those who hear.
Strife » Ministers should » Avoid
And a bondman of Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,
no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money,
Strife » Ministers should » Avoid questions that lead to
But avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and contentions, and legal fightings, for they are useless and vain.
But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.
Strife » Ministers should » Not preach through
Actually some also preach the Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good-will. Some indeed proclaim the Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to bring affliction to my bonds.
Truth » Ministers should » Approve themselves by
in word of truth, in power of God, through the weapons of righteousness of the right hand and of the left,
But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.
Because, if I have boasted anything to him about you, I am not ashamed, but as we spoke all things in truth to you, so also our boast to Titus became truth.
Truth » Ministers should » Speak
For if I should want to boast, I will not be foolish, for I will speak the truth. But I refrain lest any man should reckon to me above what he sees of me or hears anything from me.
So then have I become your enemy telling you the truth?
Truth » Ministers should » Teach in
For which I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth.
Works, good » Ministers should » Exhort to
Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment, to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share,
Works, good » Ministers should » Be patterns of
Concerning all things presenting thyself a pattern of good works in the doctrine: incorruption, dignity, incorruptibility,