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2 Timothy 2:24

James Moffatt - New Testament

And the Lord's servant must not be a man of strife; he must be kind to everybody, a skilled teacher, a man who will not resent injuries;

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they must abuse no one, they must not quarrel, but be conciliatory and display perfect gentleness to all men.

[For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

no, we behaved gently when we were among you, like a nursing mother cherishing her own children,

Shun that, O man of God, aim at integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, and suavity;

forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.

In all that you do, avoid grumbling and disputing,

never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love

Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,

The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;

he must hold by the sure truths of doctrine so as to be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and refute objections raised by any.]

I appeal to you myself by the gentleness and consideration of Christ — the Paul who is 'humble enough to your face when he is with you, but outspoken enough when he gets away from you.'

Next day he came upon two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. "You are brothers!" he said, "why injure one another?"

He will not wrangle or shout, no one will hear his voice in the streets.

You crave, and miss what you want: you envy and covet, but you cannot acquire: you wrangle and fight — you miss what you want because you do not ask God for it;

James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greeting.

Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you on the subject of our common salvation, but I am forced to write you an appeal to defend the faith which has once for all been committed to the saints;

Thus a loud clamour broke out. Some of the scribes who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and contended, "We find nothing wrong about this man. What if some spirit or angel has spoken to him?"

Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and for their knowledge of the Truth that goes with a religious life,

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but divinely strong to demolish fortresses —

As a sharp dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas, along with some others of their number, should go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem about this question.

The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,




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