Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.
We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;