Thematic Bible: Should not be
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Ministers » Should not be » Greedy of filthy lucre
Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;
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Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;
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Silver or gold, or clothing, of none have I eagerly desired.
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Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;
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Ministers » Should not be » Easily dispirited
Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed;
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As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
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Ministers » Should not be » Men-pleasers
For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.
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But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:
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Ministers » Should not be » Entangled by cares
None making war is entangled with the affairs of life: that he may please him having enlisted him.
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And Jesus said to him, Permit the dead to inter their own. dead; and thou, having gone, announce the kingdom of God.
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Ministers » Should not be » Contentious
For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.
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Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;
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Ministers » Should not be » Crafty
But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.
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Ministers » Should not be » Lords over God's heritage
Neither as ruling over the portions obtained by lot, but being types of the flock.
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Widow's » Should not be » Oppressed
Ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan and the widow, and innocent blood ye shall not pour out in this place, and after other gods ye shall not go, for evil to you;
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And the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the poor, ye shall not oppress; and ye shall not purpose evil in your heart a man to his brother.
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Widow's » Should not be » Deprived of raiment in pledge
Thou shalt not turn away the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless; and thou shalt not take as a pledge the garment of the widow.
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Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Thus said Jehovah, Do ye judgment and justice, and deliver him taken by force, from the hand of him oppressing: ye shall not be violent, ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, and ye shall not pour but innocent blood in this place.
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Widow's » Should not be » Afflicted
Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict.
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