and you must stop offering to sin the parts of your bodies as instruments for wrongdoing, but you must once for all offer yourselves to God as persons raised from the dead to live on perpetually, and once for all offer the parts of your bodies to God as instruments for right-doing.

Do you not know that when you habitually offer yourselves to anyone for obedience to him, you are slaves to that one whom you are in the habit of obeying, whether it is the slavery to sin whose end is death or to obedience whose end is right-doing?

and since you have been freed from sin, you have become the slaves of right-doing.

I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.

my message of truth, and the power of God; with the weapons of right-doing in my right hand and my left;

Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness?

Hold your position, then, with your waist encircled with the belt of truth, put on right-doing as a coat of mail,

men that are abounding in the fruits of right-doing with the help of Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

For everyone who uses milk alone is inexperienced in the message of right-doing; he is only an infant.

because we know that a man does not come into right standing with God by doing what the law commands, but by simple trust in Christ, we too have trusted in Christ Jesus, in order to come into right standing with God by simple trust in Christ and not by doing what the law commands, because by doing what the law commands no man can come into right standing with God.

For it is better, if the will of God should plan it so, to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.

Dearly beloved, do not follow bad examples but good ones. Whoever practices doing right is God's child; whoever practices doing wrong has never seen God.

For civil authorities are not a terror to the man who does right, but they are to the man who does wrong. Do you want to have no dread of the civil authorities? Then practice doing right and you will be commended for it.

and be actually in union with Him, not having a supposed right standing with God which depends on my doing what the law commands, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the real right standing with God which originates from Him and rests on faith.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for being and doing right, for they will be completely satisfied.

"Blessed are those who suffer persecution for being and doing right, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

But whenever you, a follower of mine, do a deed of charity, never let your own left hand know what your right hand is doing,

But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

but in every nation the man who reveres God and practices doing right is acceptable to Him.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free so far as doing right was concerned.

But if I am always doing what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is right.

For the kingdom of God does not consist in what we eat and drink, but in doing right, in peace and joy through the Holy Spirit;

But the father who stands firm in his purpose, without having any necessity for doing so, and he has made the decision in his own heart to keep her single, will do what is right.

You are, indeed, doing right to give thanks, but your neighbor is not built up.

So it is no surprise if his servants also masquerade as ministers for doing right, whose doom shall be in accordance with what they do.

But I am praying God that you may never do anything wrong, not to show that I am standing the test, but that you should continue doing right, though I should fail to stand the test.

Brothers, if anybody is caught in the very act of doing wrong, you who are spiritual, in the spirit of gentleness, must set him right; each of you continuing to think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

Masters, you must practice doing the right and square things by your slaves, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.

But you, brothers, must never grow tired of doing right.

All Scripture is inspired by God, and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in doing what is right,

Now the crown for doing right awaits me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award me on that day, and not only me but also all who have loved His appearing.

It is a message to be trusted, and I want you to be emphatic about these things, so that those who believe in God may be careful to take the lead in doing good. These things are right and render service to mankind.

But if you really observe the law of the King in accordance with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right;

For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

They were submissive to their husbands, as Sarah, for example, obeyed Abraham and called him master. You have become true daughters of hers, if you practice doing right and cease from every fear.

Instead, you are happy, even if you should suffer for doing right. Never be afraid of their threats, and never be disturbed,

Therefore, those who suffer in accordance with God's will must also, in doing right, entrust their souls to the Creator who is faithful.

Dear children, avoid letting anyone lead you astray. Whoever practices doing right is upright, just as He is upright.

Let the person who is doing evil do evil still; let the filthy person be filthy still; let the upright person still do right; let the consecrated person still be consecrated.