For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.

For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men,

Walk

They were both upright in the sight of God, blamelessly observing all the Lord's commands and requirements.

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.

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But he said, "You might better say, 'Blessed are those who hear God's message and observe it!' "