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1 Timothy 6:2
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1 Timothy 6:2
2And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
2And they that haue beleeuing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren: but rather doe them seruice, because they are ‖faithfull and beloued, partakers of the benefite: These things teach and exhort.
- Or, beleeuing.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Timothy 6:2
Giving credit to testimony or to other evidence than personal knowledge.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons who rule, own, teach, or exercise authority over others.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
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To regard with contempt, reject, or esteem lightly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
For the reason that; since.
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Brothers; near kindred; fellow Israelites; or fellow believers, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Steadfast in truth, duty, promise, or allegiance; trustworthy and true.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons who share, participate, or have a portion with others.
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A good received, an advantage, or an act of kindness; as a verb, to do good to or help.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To instruct, inform, train, show, counsel, or communicate knowledge or doctrine.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments to a good deed or to any laudable conduct or course of action. To advise; to warn; to caution.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study11These things command and teach.
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Open the full verse study1MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
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Open the full verse study4¶ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
5And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
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Open the full verse study1THE elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
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Open the full verse study1REBUKE not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
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Open the full verse study10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
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Open the full verse study3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
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Open the full verse study2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study4Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
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Open the full verse study11Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
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Open the full verse study1PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
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Open the full verse study15Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
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Open the full verse study6That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
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Open the full verse study26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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Open the full verse study6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
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Open the full verse study1WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
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Open the full verse study14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
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Open the full verse study28¶ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
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Open the full verse study8Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
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Open the full verse study8But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
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Open the full verse study40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
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Open the full verse study24¶ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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Open the full verse study3And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?
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Open the full verse study10I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
11Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
12Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
14But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
15For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
16Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
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Open the full verse study17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
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Open the full verse study29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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Open the full verse study1BUT speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
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Open the full verse study15These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
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Open the full verse study8This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
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Open the full verse study5Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
6That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
7For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
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