Feed 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;
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
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;
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
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