NEW TESTAMENT

1 Timothy 5:22

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Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

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Verse 22. Impose not hands lightly upon any man, in promoting him to be a minister of God by the sacrament of orders, unless he be duly qualified.—Neither in this be partaker of other men’s sins, as they make themselves who ordain others rashly. Witham.

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