Thematic Bible: Should not be
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Ministers » Should not be » Greedy of filthy lucre
Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;
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Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,
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I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel.
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not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,
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Ministers » Should not be » Easily dispirited
in every way having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss;
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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.
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Ministers » Should not be » Men-pleasers
For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.
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Ministers » Should not be » Entangled by cares
No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.
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Jesus said to him, Let the dead bury their dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.
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Ministers » Should not be » Contentious
For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;
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not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,
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Ministers » Should not be » Crafty
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
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Ministers » Should not be » Lords over God's heritage
nor as lording it over those allotted to you by God, but becoming examples to the flock.
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Widow's » Should not be » Oppressed
if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;
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And do not crush the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, of a man against his brother.
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Widow's » Should not be » Deprived of raiment in pledge
You shall not pervert the rightful judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing to pledge.
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Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
So says Jehovah, Do judgment and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the oppressors's hand. And do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
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Widow's » Should not be » Afflicted
You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
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