The Qualification For Fulltime Minister

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers,

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

The burden of Moab. Because in a night destroyed was Ar of Moab--It hath been cut off, Because in a night destroyed was Kir of Moab--It hath been cut off. — read the full passage →

And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that <FI>is<Fi> according to piety, — read the full passage →

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

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

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? — read the full passage →

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?'

reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

Elders who <FI>are<Fi> among you, I exhort, who <FI>am<Fi> a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker, — read the full passage →

also to which an antitype doth now save us--baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

For such a chief priest did become us--kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God--ever living to make intercession for them.

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, — read the full passage →

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

And thou--watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

honour widows who are really widows;

be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership;

in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,

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

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

always rejoice ye; — read the full passage →

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate <FI>us<Fi> into the reign of the Son of His love,

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; — read the full passage →

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly, — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — read the full passage →

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I--I will receive you,

not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

on every first <FI>day<Fi> of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant; — read the full passage →

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God; — read the full passage →

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

How then shall they call upon <FI>him<Fi> in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe <FI>on him<Fi> of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

and on the morrow Paul and his company having gone forth, we came to Caesarea, and having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist--who is of the seven--we remained with him,

for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock, — read the full passage →

And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly,

And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight,

And after the ceasing of the tumult, Paul having called near the disciples, and having embraced <FI>them<Fi> , went forth to go on to Macedonia;

and many of those who had practised the curious arts, having brought the books together, were burning <FI>them<Fi> before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found <FI>it<Fi> five myriads of silverlings;

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

there having been, therefore, not a little dissension and disputation to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up unto the apostles and elders to Jerusalem about this question,

and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,'

`And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,

And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God, — read the full passage →

and on the morrow they did enter into Caesarea; and Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kindred and near friends,

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian,

And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?' — read the full passage →

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles; — read the full passage →

whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them <FI>their<Fi> hands.

look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,

saying, `Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,

And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven,

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place,

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;