2 Corinthians 6:3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
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Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
¶ For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Let no man seek his own, but every man another's [wealth].
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
¶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.
¶ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way.
If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
Even as I please all [men] in all [things], not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.
Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by [your] letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
¶ The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
That there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another.
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away:
And all things [are] of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
¶ And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:
And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which [I have] for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast [some] of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
¶ Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
But they said, Not on the feast [day], lest there be an uproar among the people.
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
¶ But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
For your obedience is come abroad unto all [men]. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
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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