1
Keep Yourself

• Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in
  other people's sins keep yourself pure (1
  Timothy 522).

2
Keep Yourself

• Keep yourself out of the business of others
• 1 Peter 415 1 Thessalonians 411

3
1 Peter 415

• But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a
  thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other
  people's matters.

4
1 Thessalonians 411

• That you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to
  mind your own business, and to work with your own
  hands, as we commanded you.

5
Keep Yourself

• Keep yourself out of the business of others
• 1 Peter 415 1 Thessalonians 411
• Keep your heart with all diligence
• Proverbs 423 Matthew 1519

6
Proverbs 423

• Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of
  it spring the issues of life.

7
Matthew 1519-20

• For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
  murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false
  witness, blasphemies. 20 These are the things
  which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed
  hands does not defile a man.

8
Keep Yourself

• Keep yourself out of the business of others
• 1 Peter 415 1 Thessalonians 411
• Keep your heart with all diligence
• Proverbs 423 Matthew 1519
• Keep your mouth bridled
• Psalm 391 James 119 1 Peter 310

9
Psalm 391

• I said, I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with
  my tongue I will restrain my mouth with a
  muzzle, While the wicked are before me.

10
James 119

• So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be
  swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

11
1 Peter 310

• For He who would love life And see good days,
  Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his
  lips from speaking deceit.

12
Keep Yourself

• Keep yourself out of the business of others
• 1 Peter 415 1 Thessalonians 411
• Keep your heart with all diligence
• Proverbs 423 Matthew 1519
• Keep your mouth bridled
• Psalm 391 James 119 1 Peter 310
• Keep your body in subjection
• 1 Corinthians 927 1 Peter 211

13
1 Corinthians 927

• But I discipline my body and bring it into
  subjection, lest, when I have preached to others,
  I myself should become disqualified.

14
1 Peter 211

• Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims,
  abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the
  soul, 12 having your conduct honorable among the
  Gentiles, that when they speak against you as
  evildoers, they may, by your good works which
  they observe, glorify God in the day of
  visitation.

15
Conclusion

• Pure and undefiled religion before God and the
  Father is this to visit orphans and widows in
  their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from
  the world.
  (James 127)