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Zoe
Zoe
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NIV 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
JoChris
JoChris
Whole chapter https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+13&version=KJV
1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 ****Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God****: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
Zoe
Zoe
Titus 1:6-9
6An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe b and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. 7Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. 8Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright
Zoe
Zoe
Titus 1:10-12 NIV

Rebuking Those Who Fail to Do Good

10For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group. 11They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain. 12One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes
Zoe
Zoe
Titus 1:13-15 NIV

,lazy gluttons.” c 13This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith 14and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth. 15To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
Zoe
Zoe
Titus 1:16

16They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.
JoChris
JoChris
How are verses referring to requirements for elders relevant to submitting to authorities, e.g. non-Christian websites' blocking rules?
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Zoe
Zoe
1 Timothy 4

12Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. 13Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. 14Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you.
Zoe
Zoe
1 Timothy 4:15-16 NIV

15Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. 16Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
Zoe
Zoe
2 Timothy 3:6-8

6They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
Zoe
Zoe
2 Timothy 3:9 NIV

9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
JoChris
JoChris
How have you been anyway? Has spring arrived for you yet?
We have had a shocking hot summer here. We had next to no rain until recently.
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Zoe
Zoe
God bless you Jo! I’m fine, I wish I could say the same for others around the world suffering unlike anything I could possible fathom. It’s a man made winter here, with my hypothyroidism. Trying to focus on my studies via Pharmacology and medical orders. However the end times is moving so rampantly that it’s distracting and distressing cause no one could imagine things turning out the way they are. Jesus is coming!!
JoChris
JoChris
I moved my other comment here RE love:
*****it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs****
Therefore it does not hold grudges and does not seek revenge for personal rejection e.g. YouTube clips/ trolling, attacking previous online friends.
I was very sad to read you had put Red Sky and Camidria through that. You know that I am being frank with you, because I am honest.
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Zoe
Zoe
Not soon enough though, but we are closer than ever and that’s enough to keep me motivated to be about the father’s business. It’s far better than studying Pharmacology, at least to me it is. Anyways, have a blessed night Jo. ^_^
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