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¶ Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
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;
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
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.
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.
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;
¶ This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
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.
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.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
¶ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.
And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide [there]. And she constrained us.
¶ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
¶ Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
¶ We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I [am] pure from the blood of all [men].
¶ Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
¶ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus [our] brother,
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
¶ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
The Lord Jesus Christ [be] with thy spirit. Grace [be] with you. Amen.
All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace [be] with you all. Amen.
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