Thematic Bible: Ministers should


Thematic Bible














These having laid down to the brethren, thou shalt be a good servant of Jesus Christ, brought up in the words of faith and good doctrine, which thou bast closely followed.


And do thou speak what becomes sound doctrine:



As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance: But according to the holy one calling you, also should ye yourselves be holy in all turning back; For it has been written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.


They shall be holy to their God, and profane not the name of their God: for the sacrifices of Jehovah, and the bread of their God they bring: and they were holy.







Being able to moderate the passions to the ignorant, and deceived; since he also is surrounded with weakness.

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil, In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;


For having passed by, and beholding your venerations, I found also an altar upon which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom not knowing therefore ye reverence, him I announce to you.


Much freedom of speech to me toward you; to me much boasting over you: I am filled with consolation, I superabound in joy in all your pressure.

For what thankfulness can we return to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for you before our God;






And confident in this, I know that I shall remain, and shall remain near together with you all for your advancement and joy of faith:

Not that we are masters of your faith, but we are aiders of your joy: for ye have stood in the faith.











And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil, In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;




Remind them to be subordinate to beginnings and powers, to yield obedience to authority, to be prepared for every good work, To slander none, to be without fighting, equitable, showing all meekness to all men.


Giving no offence in any thing, that the service be not blamed:


And he shall say, Lift ye up, lift ye up; clear the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people.












Thy priests shall put on justice, and thy godly ones shall rejoice.




And he will say, If now I found grace in thine eyes, my lord, my lord will go now in the midst of us (for it is a people of a hard neck) and forgive our iniquity and our sin, and take possession of us.

Remember thy servants, for Abraham, for Isaak, and for Jacob, thou wilt not look to the stubbornness of this people, and to its wickedness, and to its sin:


Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit says, If to day ye hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the exasperation, in the day of trial in the desert: Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. read more.
Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways. As I aware in my wrath, If they shall come into my rest.) See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.




Call with the throat; thou shalt not spare; as a trumpet lift up thy voice, and announce to my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sin.

Now go, write it to them upon a tablet, and engrave it upon a book, and it shall be for the latter day, forever even forever.

Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call against it; for their evil came up before me.

And he will say to me, Son of man, I send thee to the sons of Israel, to rebellious nations who rebelled against me: they and their fathers transgressed against me even to this same day. And the sons hard of face and strong of heart. I send thee to them; and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah. And if they will hear, and if they will desist, (for they a house of contradiction,) and they shall know that a prophet was in the midst of them.

Thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the city of bloods, and make her to know all her abominations?


Between the porch and to the altar the priests serving Jehovah shall weep, and they shall say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and thou wilt not give thine inheritance to reproach for the nations to rule over them: wherefore shall they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Strike with thy hand and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the famine and by the sword and by death.

And if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in hiding places from the face of pride, and mine eye weeping shall weep and bring down tears, because the flock of Jehovah was taken captive.

And it will be in his commanding the man clothed with linen, saying, Take the fire from between the wheel from between the cherubs; and he will go in and stand by the wheel.


And Moses will turn back to Jehovah, and say, Ah, now, this people sinned a great sin, and they will make to them golden gods. And now if thou wilt, lift up their sin; and if not, wipe me off from thy book which thou didst write.


And if they stood in my consultation, and they will cause my people to hear my word, and turn them back from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.


For it was manifested to me concerning you, my brethren, by them of Chloe, that there are contentions with you.


And this announcing I approve not, that not for the better come ye together, but for the worse. For truly first, ye coming together in the church, I hear divisions to be among you; and some part I believe.











And some truly by envy and strife, and some also by kindness of disposition, proclaim Christ. Some truly of hired labor announce Christ, not purely, thinking to bring pressure upon my bonds:




For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I was not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also was our boasting over Titus the truth.


For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.





To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit; To do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal, qualified for participation;