Thematic Bible: Should not be
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Ministers » Should not be » Greedy of filthy lucre
see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind.
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Likewise must the deacons be honest, not double tongued, not given unto much drinking, neither unto filthy lucre:
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I have desired no man's silver, gold, or vesture.
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not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness,
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Ministers » Should not be » Easily dispirited
We are troubled on every side, yet are we not without shift. We are in poverty: but not utterly without somewhat.
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as sorrowing and yet always merry, as poor and yet make many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
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Ministers » Should not be » Men-pleasers
Preach I man's doctrine or God's? Other go I about to please men? If I studied to please men, I were not the servant of Christ.
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but as we were allowed of God, that the gospel should be committed unto us: even so we speak, not as though we intended to please men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
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Ministers » Should not be » Entangled by cares
No man that warreth entangleth himself with worldly business; and that, because he would please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier.
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Jesus said unto him, "Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God."
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Ministers » Should not be » Contentious
For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre:
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not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness,
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Ministers » Should not be » Crafty
but have cast from us the cloaks of unhonesty, and walk not in craftiness, neither corrupt we the word of God: but walk in open truth, and report ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
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Ministers » Should not be » Lords over God's heritage
Not as though ye were lords over the parishes: but that ye be an example to the flock.
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Widow's » Should not be » Oppressed
If ye will not oppress the stranger, the fatherless and the widow; if ye will not shed innocent blood in this place; if ye will not cleave to strange gods to your own destruction;
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Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."
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Widow's » Should not be » Deprived of raiment in pledge
Hinder not the right of the stranger nor of the fatherless, nor take widow's raiment to pledge.
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Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Thus the LORD commandeth: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent: do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place.
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Widow's » Should not be » Afflicted
Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:
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