1 Timothy 2:3

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1 Timothy 2:3

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

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If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.

Whoever serves Christ in that way pleases God and gains the approval of men.

for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth;

with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

You have paid me in full, and more too. I am fully supplied with what I have received from you through Epaphroditus. It is like fragrant incense, just such a sacrifice as God welcomes and approves.

so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.

Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God??s indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.

But do not forget to be helpful and generous, for that is the kind of sacrifice that pleases God.

and build yourselves up as living stones into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, so as to offer spiritual sacrifices that through Jesus Christ will be acceptable to God.