Thematic Bible: Should preach
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Ministers » Should preach » Without deceitfulness
At least we are not commercializing God's word like so many others. Instead, we speak with sincerity in the Messiah's name, like people who are sent from God and are accountable to God.
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As you know, we did not come with flattering words or with a scheme to make money. God is our witness!
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Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not use trickery or pervert God's word. By clear statements of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.
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For our appeal to you does not spring from deceit, impure motives, or trickery.
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Ministers » Should preach » Not with enticing words of man's wisdom
For the Messiah did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, not with eloquent wisdom, so the cross of the Messiah won't be emptied of its power.
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My message and my preaching were not accompanied by clever, wise words, but by a display of the Spirit's power,
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When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come and tell you about God's secret with rhetorical language or wisdom.
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Ministers » Should preach » With boldness
"Shout aloud! Don't hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their rebellions, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
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"Now as for you, Son of Man, never be afraid of them or of anything they have to say, because being with them will be like settling down to live among briers, thorn bushes, and scorpions! Don't be afraid of anything they have to say, and don't be awed by their appearance, since they are a rebellious group.
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What I tell you in darkness you must speak in the daylight, and what is whispered in your ear you must shout from the housetops. Stop being afraid of those who kill the body but can't kill the soul. Instead, be afraid of the one who can destroy both body and soul in hell.
Ministers » Should preach » Without charge, if possible
Brothers, you remember our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not become a burden to any of you while we proclaimed the gospel of God to you.
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What, then, is my reward? It is to be able to preach the gospel free of charge, and so I never resort to demanding my rights when I'm preaching the gospel.
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Ministers » Should preach » Christ crucified
Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began to preach the Messiah to the people.
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Then Philip began to speak, and, starting from this Scripture, he told him the good news about Jesus.
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For while I was with you I resolved to know nothing except Jesus the Messiah, and him crucified.
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Ministers » Should preach » Fully, and without reserve
because I never shrank from telling you the whole plan of God.
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I never shrank from telling you anything that would help you nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.
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"Go, stand in the Temple, and keep on telling the people the whole message about this life they can have."
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Ministers » Should preach » With constancy
Then we'll devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."
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to proclaim the message. Be ready to do this whether or not the time is convenient. Refute, warn, and encourage with the utmost patience when you teach.
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Ministers » Should preach » With consistency
As certainly as God is faithful, we haven't talked to you with mixed messages like that. For God's Son, Jesus the Messiah, who was preached among you by us by me, Silvanus, and Timothy was not "Yes" and "No." But with him it is always "Yes."
Ministers » Should preach » Everywhere
Then his disciples went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the signs that accompanied it.
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Now those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the word.
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Ministers » Should preach » With good will and love
Some are preaching the Messiah because of jealousy and dissension, while others do so because of their good will. The latter are motivated by love, because they know that I have been appointed to defend the gospel. The former proclaim the Messiah because they are selfishly ambitious and insincere, thinking that they will stir up trouble for me during my imprisonment.
Ministers » Should preach » With zeal
We cared so deeply for you that we were determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but our very lives. That is how dear you were to us.
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Ministers » Should preach » With plainness of speech
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we speak very boldly,
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Ministers » Should preach » Not setting forth themselves
For we do not preach ourselves, but rather Jesus the Messiah as Lord, and ourselves as merely your servants for Jesus' sake.
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Ministers » Should preach » With faithfulness
"Son of Man," he said, "I've appointed you to be a watchman over the house of Israel. Therefore when you hear a message that comes from me, you are to warn them for me. "So when I say to a wicked person, "You're about to die,' if you don't warn or instruct that wicked person that his behavior is wicked so he can live, that wicked person will die in his sin, but I'll hold you responsible for his death.
Ministers » Should preach » With heedfulness
Pay close attention to your life and your teaching. Persevere in these things, because if you do so, you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.
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Ministers » Should preach » According to the oracles of God
Whoever speaks must speak God's words. Whoever serves must serve with the strength that God supplies, so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus, the Messiah. Glory and power belong to him forever and ever! Amen.
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Ministers » Should preach » Repentance and faith
I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus.
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