For it is God’s will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.

The upright see it and rejoice,
and all injustice shuts its mouth.

Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;
pursue the way of understanding.

“For My people are fools;
they do not know Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”

But everyone who hears these words of Mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

Five of them were foolish and five were sensible.

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.

You foolish Galatians! Who has hypnotized you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified?

Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.

For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,

Give thanks in everything,
for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,

But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals—they destroy themselves with these things.

Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?

So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts its mouth.

The boastful cannot stand in Your presence;
You hate all evildoers.

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So

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.
For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,
Give thanks in everything,
for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

With

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.
So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts its mouth.
The upright see it and rejoice,
and all injustice shuts its mouth.
Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

The ignorance

one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.
But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,
But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals—they destroy themselves with these things.

Foolish

Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
The boastful cannot stand in Your presence;
You hate all evildoers.
Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;
pursue the way of understanding.
“For My people are fools;
they do not know Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”
But everyone who hears these words of Mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Five of them were foolish and five were sensible.
For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.
You foolish Galatians! Who has hypnotized you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified?
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

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So Jacob said to him, “You know what I have done for you and your herds.
They answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.

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