...................................................................LET US LEARN TOGETHER WHAT IS GOOD. Job 34:4b(NIV)................................................................Some people see the Bible as a long and boring book filled with incidents and events from the lives of ancient people who probably never existed. The biblical stories are seen as fables. In this blog, many of the situations and conversations found in the Holy Scriptures have been placed in categories that correspond to expressive sayings and phrases. Reference information, background information and links connecting the people and places are given to help you find a place to begin reading the Bible for yourself.

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Them, too

Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, To all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace. For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God.-Philippians 1:1-11***The divinely inspired words written by the apostle Paul (Saul) to Timothy (Timotheus) reveal that bishops and those who want to become bishops must be men whose lives exist of specific characteristics. Bishops and potential bishops must be irreproachable, married men who have been living a life in Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, for a while and whose words and actions are taken seriously by people in and out of their home. Bishops and potential bishops must be sober, orderly, hospitable, instructive, peaceable, of a sound mind, and never avaricious. Paul wrote that deacons must be truthful, reverential, and sober, respected by their family, and cannot have a heart set on ill-gotten gains. In a letter sent by Paul, with Timothy, to believers in Philippi, bishops and deacons were especially noted in the address.-Genesis 11:26-35:29, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, 6:1-8:4, 9:1-31, 11:19-28:31, Philippians, 1 Timothy

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