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And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, patient,
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
¶ If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
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;
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
¶ But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
¶ Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.
[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
¶ With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
¶ Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being [found] blameless.
Even so [must their] wives [be] grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
¶ Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
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;
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with young.
¶ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
¶ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
And there arose a great cry: and the scribes [that were] of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
¶ Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: [and] the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
¶ Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
(For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, [according to the commandment] of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
His watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
¶ So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?
¶ Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
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