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Scriptures from the Living English Bible
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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 lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired man, who is not actual shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs, and the wolf carries them off and scatters them; 13 because he is a hired man and does not care about the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, 15 as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 2
Micah 3:11
| 11her heads give the decision they are bribed to, and her priests the rulings they are hired to, and her prophets the predictions they get money for, and they lean on Jehovah and say “Do we not have Jehovah in our midst? no mischief will come upon us.” 3
Matthew 23:8-12
| 8 But do not you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher and you are all of you brothers; 9 and do not call one your father on earth, for one, the heavenly, is your Father. 10 And do not be called spiritual directors either; for one, the Messiah, is your spiritual director. 11 But the greatest one of you shall be serving-man to you. 12 And whoever shall lift himself up will be put down, and whoever shall put himself down will be lifted up. 4
Luke 9:58
| And Jesus said to him “The foxes have dens and the birds of the air perches, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” 5
1 Peter 5:2, 3
| 2 shepherd God’s flock that you have among you, not as a matter of compulsion, but willingly, God’s way; not mercenarily, but enthusiastically; 3 and not as lording it over the parishes, but setting an example to the flock; |
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