2Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
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For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. …
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Here we may observe, I. The persons to whom this exhortation is given—to the presbyters, pastors, and spiritual guides of the church, elders by office, rather than by age, ministers of those churches to whom he wrote this epistle. II. The person who gives this exhortation—the apostle Peter: I exhort ; and, to give force to this exhortation, he tells them he was their brother-presbyter or fellow-el…
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