Bible Verses About Commandments

nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

and as an enemy count him not, but admonish ye him as a brother;

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:

for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,

but--which becometh women professing godly piety--through good works.

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

Ministrants--in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,

and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.