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 the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, as God wants; not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
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Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not devoted to a lot of wine, not greedy for money;
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I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing.
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not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;
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Ministers » Should not be » Easily dispirited
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
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Ministers » Should not be » Men-pleasers
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
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Ministers » Should not be » Entangled by cares
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."
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Ministers » Should not be » Contentious
For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
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not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;
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Ministers » Should not be » Crafty
But we 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 to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
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Ministers » Should not be » Lords over God's heritage
neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
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Widow's » Should not be » Oppressed
if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
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Do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'
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Widow's » Should not be » Deprived of raiment in pledge
You shall not deprive the foreigner, or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow's clothing in pledge;
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Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Thus says the LORD: "Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
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Widow's » Should not be » Afflicted
"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
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