Bible Verses About Commandments

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.

For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: working not at all, but curiously meddling.

Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.

But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.

Yet do not esteem him as an enemy but admonish him as a brother.

I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men:

For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:

But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.

But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

Not a neophyte: lest, being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

Moreover, he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.

And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, having no crime.

The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.