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   Acts 20:28

   Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

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2. 2

   1 Timothy 3:1

   ¶ This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

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3. 3

   Titus 1:7

   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;

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4. 4

   Luke 19:44

   And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

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5. 5

   1 Peter 2:25

   For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

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6. 6

   Acts 1:20

   For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.

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7. 7

   1 Peter 2:12

   Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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8. 8

   Philippians 1:1

   ¶ Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

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9. 9

   Titus 1:5

   ¶ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

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10. 10

    Luke 1:68

    Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,

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11. 11

    Luke 7:16

    And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.

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12. 12

    Acts 15:14

    Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

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13. 13

    Matthew 25:36

    Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

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14. 14

    Matthew 25:43

    I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

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15. 15

    James 1:27

    Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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16. 16

    Acts 7:23

    And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

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17. 17

    Hebrews 2:6

    But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

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18. 18

    Psalms 8:4

    What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

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19. 19

    1 Timothy 3:4

    One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

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20. 20

    1 Timothy 5:17

    ¶ Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

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21. 21

    1 Peter 5:2

    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;

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22. 22

    Acts 20:17

    ¶ And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

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23. 23

    Acts 20:29

    For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

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