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 grand-children, let them above all things instruct their own family to be religious, and let them be grateful to their parents, for this is acceptable to God.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to you, that you present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unto God, as the service of a rational being.

for he that thus pays his allegiance to Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

for the natural effect of light, is universal benevolence, justice, and truth:

abounding in good works by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

I have now receiv'd the whole, and have more than sufficient: I am loaded with the presents you sent by Epaphroditus, which I have receiv'd as grateful incense, as a sacrifice which God accepts and approves.

that your conduct may be worthy of the Lord, in every respect agreeable to him, being friutful in every kind of virtue, and increasing in divine knowledge:

Finally, my brethren, we intreat and conjure you by the Lord Jesus Christ, to observe the instructions we gave you about your religious conduct, and to make continual progress therein.

but don't forget to be beneficent to the community; for such sacrifice is acceptable to God.

you your selves are as so many living stones, you are the edifice, the spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, agreeable to God by Jesus Christ.