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The True religion has no paid clergy

  1

John 10:11-15
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.
12 He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not,
beholdeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth,
and the wolf snatcheth them, and scattereth them:
13 he fleeth because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own know me,
15 even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

  2

Micah 3:11
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire,
and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say,
Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

  3

Matthew 23:8-12
But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.
9 And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven.
10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, even the Christ.
11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled;
and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

  4

Luke 9:58
And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests;
but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

  5

1 Peter 5:2, 3
Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint,
but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.

The True Religion is Identified by:

having no paid clergy with fancy robes and high sounding titles,
following Jesus example of never charging for teaching people
never charging to study the Bible or for Bibles or Bible based literature
the perfect example Jesus gave us for Christian shepherds today