11 Likewise, their wives must be reverent, not [a]slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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  1. 1 Timothy 3:11 malicious gossips

the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—

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to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.

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A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

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Be [a]sober, be [b]vigilant; [c]because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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  1. 1 Peter 5:8 self-controlled
  2. 1 Peter 5:8 watchful
  3. 1 Peter 5:8 NU, M omit because

unloving, [a]unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,

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  1. 2 Timothy 3:3 irreconcilable

18 Whoever (A)hides hatred has lying lips,
And (B)whoever spreads slander is a fool.

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So (A)the great dragon was cast out, (B)that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, (C)who deceives the whole world; (D)he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, (E)“Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, (F)who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

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But you be watchful in all things, (A)endure afflictions, do the work of (B)an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

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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.

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Glory to God for His Grace(A)

12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has (B)enabled me, (C)because He counted me faithful, (D)putting me into the ministry,

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(A)Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but (B)let us watch and be [a]sober. For (C)those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk (D)are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, (E)putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 5:6 self-controlled

70 Jesus answered them, (A)“Did I not choose you, the twelve, (B)and one of you is a devil?”

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John’s Birth Announced to Zacharias

There was (A)in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, (B)of the division of (C)Abijah. His (D)wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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Satan Tempts Jesus(A)

Then (B)Jesus was led up by (C)the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

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22 They shall not take as wife a (A)widow or a divorced woman, but take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or widows of priests.

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“Everyone(A) take heed to his [a]neighbor,
And do not trust any brother;
For every brother will utterly supplant,
And every neighbor will (B)walk with slanderers.

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  1. Jeremiah 9:4 friend

13 (A)Like the cold of snow in time of harvest
Is a faithful messenger to those who send him,
For he refreshes the soul of his masters.

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Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor,
Him I will destroy;
(A)The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart,
Him I will not endure.

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20 You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother’s son.

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He who (A)does not backbite with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
(B)Nor does he [a]take up a reproach against his friend;

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  1. Psalm 15:3 receive

13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot—these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife. 15 Nor shall he profane his posterity among his people, for I the Lord sanctify him.’ ”

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(A)They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a woman (B)divorced from her husband; for [a]the priest is holy to his God.

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  1. Leviticus 21:7 Lit. he

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