1 Peter 2:18
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Submission to Masters(A)
18 (B)Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.
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Titus 2:9-10
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9 Exhort (A)bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back, 10 not [a]pilfering, but showing all good [b]fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.
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- Titus 2:10 thieving
- Titus 2:10 honesty
1 Timothy 6:1-3
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Honor Masters
6 Let as many (A)bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed. 2 And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren, but rather serve them because those who are benefited are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
Error and Greed
3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to (B)wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, (C)and to the [a]doctrine which accords with godliness,
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- 1 Timothy 6:3 teaching
Colossians 3:22-25
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22 (A)Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. 23 (B)And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, 24 (C)knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; (D)for[a] you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and (E)there is no partiality.
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- Colossians 3:24 NU omits for
James 3:17
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17 But (A)the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, (B)without partiality (C)and without hypocrisy.
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Ephesians 6:5-7
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Bondservants and Masters
5 (A)Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, (B)with fear and trembling, (C)in sincerity of heart, as to Christ; 6 (D)not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men,
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Galatians 5:22
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22 But (A)the fruit of the Spirit is (B)love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, (C)goodness, (D)faithfulness,
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Titus 3:2
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2 to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.
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2 Corinthians 10:1
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The Spiritual War
10 Now (A)I, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—(B)who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
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Proverbs 8:13
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13 (A)The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
(B)Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And (C)the perverse mouth I hate.
Proverbs 3:32
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32 For the perverse person is an abomination to the Lord,
(A)But His secret counsel is with the upright.
Psalm 101:4
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4 A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will not (A)know wickedness.
Proverbs 11:20
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20 Those who are of a perverse heart are an abomination to the Lord,
But the blameless in their ways are His delight.
Proverbs 10:32
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32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
But the mouth of the wicked what is perverse.
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