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, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
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Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much 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 drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
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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 wouldn't 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 drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, 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 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 don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
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Don't 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 wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
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Widow's » Should not be » Treated with violence
Thus says Yahweh: 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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