Thematic Bible: Should not be
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Ministers » Should not be » Greedy of filthy lucre
shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily;
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Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,
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I have coveted the silver or gold or clothing of no one.
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not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,
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Ministers » Should not be » Easily dispirited
every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;
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as grieved, but always rejoicing; as poor, but enriching many; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
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Ministers » Should not be » Men-pleasers
For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.
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but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.
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Ministers » Should not be » Entangled by cares
No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier.
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But Jesus said to him, Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, but do thou go and announce the kingdom of God.
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Ministers » Should not be » Contentious
For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;
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not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,
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Ministers » Should not be » Crafty
But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.
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Ministers » Should not be » Lords over God's heritage
not as lording it over your possessions, but being models for the flock.
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Widow's » Should not be » Oppressed
if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;
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and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
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Widow's » Should not be » Deprived of raiment in pledge
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow's garment.
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Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Thus saith Jehovah: Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place.
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Widow's » Should not be » Afflicted
Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
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