1 Timothy 3:11
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11 Women[a] likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.
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- 3.11 Or Women deacons or Wives
Titus 2:3
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3 Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or enslaved to much wine; they are to teach what is good,(A)
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Titus 3:2
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2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone.(A)
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1 Timothy 3:2
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2 Now a bishop[a] must be above reproach, married only once,[b] temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher,(A)
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1 Peter 5:8
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8 Discipline yourselves; keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.(A)
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2 Timothy 3:3
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3 unfeeling, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good,(A)
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Proverbs 10:18
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18 Lying lips conceal hatred,
and whoever utters slander is a fool.
Revelation 12:9-10
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9 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.(A)
10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven proclaiming,
“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God
and the authority of his Messiah,[a]
for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down,
who accuses them day and night before our God.(B)
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- 12.10 Gk Christ
2 Timothy 4:5
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5 As for you, be sober in everything, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.(A)
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1 Timothy 6:2
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2 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful to them on the ground that they are brothers and sisters; rather, they must serve them all the more, since those who benefit by their service are believers and beloved.[a]
False Teaching and True Riches
Teach and urge these duties.(A)
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- 6.2 Or since they are believers and beloved, who devote themselves to good deeds
1 Timothy 1:12
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Gratitude for Mercy
12 I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he considered me faithful and appointed me to his service,(A)
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1 Thessalonians 5:6-8
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6 So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,(A) 7 for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.(B) 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.(C)
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John 6:70
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70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”(A)
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Luke 1:5-6
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The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold
5 In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly order of Abijah. His wife was descended from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.(A) 6 Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.(B)
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Matthew 4:1
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The Testing of Jesus
4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested by the devil.
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Ezekiel 44:22
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22 They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman but only a virgin of the stock of the house of Israel or a widow who is the widow of a priest.(A)
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Jeremiah 9:4
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4 Beware of your neighbors,
and put no trust in any of your kin,
for all your kin are supplanters,
and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.(A)
Proverbs 25:13
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13 Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest
are faithful messengers to those who send them;
they refresh the spirit of their masters.(A)
Psalm 101:5
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5 One who secretly slanders a neighbor
I will destroy.
A haughty look and an arrogant heart
I will not tolerate.(A)
Psalm 50:20
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20 You sit and speak against your kin;
you slander your own mother’s child.(A)
Psalm 15:3
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3 who do not slander with their tongue
and do no evil to their friends
nor heap shame upon their neighbors;(A)
Leviticus 21:13-15
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13 He shall marry only a woman who is a virgin.(A) 14 A widow or a divorced woman or a woman who has been defiled, a prostitute—these he shall not marry. He shall marry a virgin of his own people, 15 that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord; I sanctify him.”
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Leviticus 21:7
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7 They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For they are holy to their God,(A)
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