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John Chapter 15:14

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

John Chapter 15:15

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

John Chapter 15:16

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

John Chapter 15:17

These things I command you, that ye love one another.

Acts Chapter 6:3

Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Acts Chapter 14:23

And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.

Ephesians Chapter 4:1

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Ephesians Chapter 4:2

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Ephesians Chapter 4:3

Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians Chapter 4:4

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Ephesians Chapter 4:5

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Ephesians Chapter 4:6

One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Ephesians Chapter 4:7

But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Ephesians Chapter 4:8

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Ephesians Chapter 4:9

Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

Ephesians Chapter 4:10

He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

Ephesians Chapter 4:11

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

Ephesians Chapter 4:12

For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

Ephesians Chapter 4:13

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Ephesians Chapter 4:14

That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Ephesians Chapter 4:15

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

Ephesians Chapter 4:16

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Ephesians Chapter 4:17

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Ephesians Chapter 4:18

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Ephesians Chapter 4:19

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Ephesians Chapter 4:20

But ye have not so learned Christ;

Ephesians Chapter 4:21

If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

Ephesians Chapter 4:22

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

Ephesians Chapter 4:23

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

Ephesians Chapter 4:24

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Ephesians Chapter 4:25

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Ephesians Chapter 4:26

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Ephesians Chapter 4:27

Neither give place to the devil.

Ephesians Chapter 4:28

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Ephesians Chapter 4:29

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Ephesians Chapter 4:30

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Ephesians Chapter 4:31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Ephesians Chapter 4:32

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

1 Timothy Chapter 1:12

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

1 Timothy Chapter 5:22

Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

2 Timothy Chapter 2:15

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Titus Chapter 1:5

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

1 Peter Chapter 2:5

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.