Thematic Bible: Should not be
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Ministers » Should not be » Greedy of filthy lucre
Shepherd the beloved flock of God, which is among you, - not by compulsion, but by choice, nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind, -
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Ministers, in the same way, - dignified, not double-tongued, not, to much wine, given, not greedy of base gain,
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The silver or gold or apparel of no one, did I covet:
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Not given to wine, not ready to wound, but considerate, averse to contention, not fond of money,
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Ministers » Should not be » Easily dispirited
On every side, pressed hard, but not hemmed in, without a way, but not without a by-way,
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as grieving, yet, ever, rejoicing, as destitute, yet making, many, rich, as holding, nothing, and yet firmly holding, all things.
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Ministers » Should not be » Men-pleasers
For am I, even now, persuading, men, or God? Or am I seeking to please, men? If I had been still pleasing, men, Christ's servant, had I not been!
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But, even as we have been approved by God, to be entrusted with the glad-message, so, we speak, - not as, unto men, giving pleasure, but unto God - who proveth our hearts.
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Ministers » Should not be » Entangled by cares
No one that is serving as a soldier, entangleth himself with the matters of his livelihood, that he may please him that hath summoned him to serve as a soldier;
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And he said unto him - Leave, the dead, to bury their own dead; but, thou, departing, be declaring the kingdom of God.
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Ministers » Should not be » Contentious
For it is needful that the overseer be - unaccusable, as God's steward, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not ready to wound, not seeking gain by base means,
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Not given to wine, not ready to wound, but considerate, averse to contention, not fond of money,
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Ministers » Should not be » Crafty
But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, - but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves unto every conscience of men, in the sight of God.
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Ministers » Should not be » Lords over God's heritage
Nor yet as lording it over the allotted portions, but becoming, ensamples, to the beloved flock;
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Widow's » Should not be » Oppressed
The sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, shall not oppress, And innocent blood, shall not shed in this place, - And after other gods, shall not walk to your own hurt,
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And, the widow and the fatherless, the sojourner and the humbled, do not ye oppress, - and, wickedness between one man and another, do not ye devise in your hearts.
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Widow's » Should not be » Deprived of raiment in pledge
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the sojourner or the fatherless, - neither shalt thou take in pledge the garment of a widow;
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Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Thus, saith Yahweh, - Execute ye justice, and righteousness, And deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, - But the sojourner the fatherless, and the widow, do not oppress neither commit violence, And the blood of the innocent, do not ye shed, in this place.
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Widow's » Should not be » Afflicted
Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate:
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