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¶ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
¶ Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which [I made] before Titus, is found a truth.
Yet if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
According to my earnest expectation and [my] hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by life, or by death.
¶ And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
¶ If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
¶ If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
¶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered, dishonoureth his head.
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
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