Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.
I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service,
So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”
In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.
Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people, that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.”
They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
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