Ministers
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Ministers’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
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For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
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one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
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Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
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As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
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Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
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not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
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Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
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1 Peter 5:3 NT
not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
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Acts 20:33 NT
I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.
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not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
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Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
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But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
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For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
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We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
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pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
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Luke 9:60 NT
But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
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No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
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even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
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Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
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We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,