Thematic Bible: Ministers should
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Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Attend to
Until I come, pay attention to the [public] reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
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Fix [your] attention on yourself and on your teaching. Continue in them, for [by] doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
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Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Hold, in sincerity
For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.
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concerning everything showing yourself [to be] an example of good deeds, in your teaching [demonstrating] soundness, dignity,
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Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Hold steadfastly
Hold fast to the pattern of sound words which you heard from me, in the faith and love [that are] in Christ Jesus.
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holding fast to the faithful message according to the teaching, in order that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to reprove those who speak against [it].
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Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Continue in
Fix [your] attention on yourself and on your teaching. Continue in them, for [by] doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
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Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Be nourished up in
[By] teaching these [things] to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed faithfully.
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Doctrines of the The Gospel » Ministers should » Speak things which become
But you, speak [the things] which are fitting for sound instruction.
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Holiness » Ministers should » Exhort to
Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
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As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires [you used to conform to] in your ignorance, but as the one who called you [is] holy, [you] yourselves be holy in all [your] conduct, for it is written, "You will be holy, because I [am] holy."
Holiness » Ministers should » Avoid » Everything » Inconsistent with
They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, because they are bringing near the offerings made by fire to Yahweh--their God's food--and they shall be holy.
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Depart, depart, go out from there! You must not touch any unclean thing. Go out from the midst of it, keep clean, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh.
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Holiness » Ministers should » Be examples of
Let no one look down on your youth, but be an example for the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
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Holiness » Ministers should » Possess
but hospitable, loving what is good, prudent, just, devout, self-controlled,
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Ignorance of God » Ministers should » Compassionate those in
being able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself also is surrounded by weakness,
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And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant, correcting those who are opposed with gentleness, [seeing] whether perhaps God may grant them repentance to a knowledge of the truth,
Ignorance of God » Ministers should » Labor to remove
For [as I] was passing through and observing carefully your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, 'To an unknown God.' Therefore what you worship without knowing [it], this I proclaim to you--
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Joy » Ministers should » Have, in the faith and holiness of their people
Great [is] my confidence toward you; great [is] my boasting on your behalf; I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.
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For what thanks can we repay to God concerning you, because of all the joy [with] which we rejoice because of you before our God,
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I have no greater joy than this: that I hear my children are walking in the truth.
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Joy » Ministers should » Esteem their people as their
So then, my beloved and greatly desired brothers, my joy and crown, thus stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.
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For you are our glory and joy.
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Joy » Ministers should » Promote, in their people
And because I am convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,
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Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.
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Joy » Ministers should » Desire to render an account with
holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
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Obey your leaders and submit [to them], for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not [with] groaning, for this [would be] unprofitable for you.
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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, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Joy » Ministers should » Come to their people with
so that, coming to you with joy by the will of God, I may rest with you.
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Joy » Ministers should » Finish their course with
But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.
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Meekness » Ministers should » Instruct opposers with
And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant, correcting those who are opposed with gentleness, [seeing] whether perhaps God may grant them repentance to a knowledge of the truth,
Meekness » Ministers should » Follow after
But you, O man of God, flee from these [things], and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patient endurance, gentleness.
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Meekness » Ministers should » Urge, on their people
Remind them to be subject to the rulers [and] to the authorities, to obey, to be prepared for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all courtesy to all people.
Offence » Ministers should » Be cautious of giving
[We are] giving no one an occasion for taking offense in anything, in order that our ministry will not have fault found [with it],
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Offence » Ministers should » Remove that which causes
And one shall say, "Build up, build up! Clear [the] way! Remove [the] obstacles from the way of my people!"
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Righteousness » Ministers should » Pray for the fruit of, in their people
Now the one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed, and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow,
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having been filled [with the] fruit of righteousness which [comes] through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
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Righteousness » Ministers should » Follow after
But you, O man of God, flee from these [things], and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patient endurance, gentleness.
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But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
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Righteousness » Ministers should » Be armed with
in the word of truth, in the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and left hand,
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Righteousness » Ministers should » Be preachers of
and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, {and seven others} [when he] brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,
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Righteousness » Ministers should » Be clothed with
Let your priests clothe themselves with righteousness, and let your faithful sing for joy.
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Righteousness » Ministers should » Reason of
And [while] he was discussing about righteousness and self control and the judgment that is to come, Felix became afraid [and] replied, "Go away for the present, and [when I] have an opportunity, I will summon you."
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Self-will and stubbornness » Ministers should » Pray that their people may be forgiven for
And he said, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, Lord, let my Lord, please, go among us--indeed it is a stiff-necked people--and forgive our iniquity and our sin and {take us as your possession}."
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Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; you must not {pay attention to} the stubbornness of this people, to their wickedness and to their sin,
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Self-will and stubbornness » Ministers should » Warn their people against
Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers tested [me] by trial and saw my works read more.
[for] forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they do not know my ways.' As I swore in my anger, '{They will never enter} into my rest.'" Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, [with the result that you] fall away from the living God.
[for] forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they do not know my ways.' As I swore in my anger, '{They will never enter} into my rest.'" Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, [with the result that you] fall away from the living God.
Self-will and stubbornness » Ministers should » Be without
For it is necessary [for] the overseer to be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain,
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national Sins » Ministers should » Testify against
"Call with [the] throat; you must not keep back! lift up your voice like trumpet, and declare to my people their rebellion, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
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Now go, write it on a tablet with them, and inscribe it on a scroll, {that} it may be {for the time to come}, forever, forever.
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"Get up! Go to the great city Nineveh and cry out against her, because their evil has come up {before me}."
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And he said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the {Israelites}, to nations [who are] rebelling, who rebelled against me, they and their ancestors, they transgressed against me {until this very day}. And the children [are] {impudent} and {stubborn}, [and so] I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh!' And they, whether they listen or whether they fail [to listen], for they [are] a rebellious house, they will know that a prophet was in their midst.
"And you, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the {bloody city}? Then you must make known [to] her all of her detestable things!
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national Sins » Ministers should » Mourn over
Between the colonnade and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep. And let them say, "Take pity, Yahweh, on your people. Do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among [the] nations. Why should they say among the nations, 'Where [is] their God?'"
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Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Clap your hand and stamp with your foot, and say, "Alas, for all of the detestable things of the evil of the house of Israel, {because of which} they will fall with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague.
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But if you will not listen to it, my inner self will weep in secret places, because of {the presence of} [your] pride. And my eyes will weep bitterly, and they will melt [in] tears, because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.
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And then at his command to the man clothed in linen, {saying}, "Take fire from among the wheel area from among the cherubim," he went and stood beside the wheel.
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national Sins » Ministers should » Pray for forgiveness of
And Moses returned to Yahweh, and he said, "Alas, this people has sinned a great sin and made for themselves gods of gold. And now if you will forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me from your scroll that you have written."
national Sins » Ministers should » Try to turn the people from
But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words [to] my people, and they would have caused them to turn from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.
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Strife » Ministers should » Reprove
For it has been made clear to me concerning you, my brothers, by {Chloe's people}, that there are quarrels among you.
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for you are still fleshly. For where [there is] jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not live like [unregenerate] people?
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But in giving this instruction I do not praise [you], because you come together not for the better but for the worse. For in the first place, [when you] come together as a church, I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
Strife » Ministers should » Warn against
Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all say the same [thing] and there not be divisions among you, and that you be made complete in the same mind and with the same purpose.
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Remind [people] of these [things], solemnly urging [them] before the Lord not to dispute about words. [This is] in no way beneficial [and leads to] the ruin of the hearers.
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Strife » Ministers should » Avoid
And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant,
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not addicted to wine, not a violent person, but gentle, peaceable, not loving money,
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Strife » Ministers should » Avoid questions that lead to
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.
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But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, [because you] know that they produce quarrels.
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Strife » Ministers should » Not preach through
Some even because of envy and strife preach Christ, but some also because of good will. The latter [do so] from love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.
Truth » Ministers should » Approve themselves by
in the word of truth, in the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and left hand,
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but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.
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For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I have not been put to shame, but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, thus also our boasting to Titus {has proven to be true}.
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Truth » Ministers should » Speak
For if I want to boast, I will not be foolish, because I will be telling the truth, but I am refraining, so that no one can credit to me more than what he sees [in] me or hears anything from me,
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So then, have I become your enemy [by] being truthful to you?
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Truth » Ministers should » Teach in
for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle--I am speaking the truth, [I am] not lying--a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
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Works, good » Ministers should » Exhort to
Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment, to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, sharing freely,
Works, good » Ministers should » Be patterns of
concerning everything showing yourself [to be] an example of good deeds, in your teaching [demonstrating] soundness, dignity,
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