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Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
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;
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
¶ Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.
¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
¶ Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
[It is] not for kings, O Lemuel, [it is] not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
¶ And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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