who was a descendant of Aaron. They were both righteous in the sight of the Lord, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the law, blameless.

This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.

and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

if only we guide our steps by the standards we have already attained.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if virtue is anything, if honor is anything, be always thinking about these.

that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.

Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.

By who says he "remains in him" ought to spend his life as he spent his.

I am greatly rejoiced to find some of your children leading their lives in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

As

"These men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only nine o'clock in the morning.

Pray without ceasing.

suffering wrong as the wage of wrong which they have done. These are men who count it pleasure to carouse in open daylight; they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceit, even while they are feasting with you.

Rioting

But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,'

"Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and made merry every day in splendor.

"Men were eating and drinking; they were marrying and being married, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

"But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be surcharged with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day catches you suddenly like a trap.

or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit,

I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.

Chambering

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

They have eyes full of harlots, eyes that cannot stop sinning. They entice unsteady souls. Their heart is trained in greed. They are an accursed generation.

others pity, but with caution, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

Strife

But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another.

Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself.

But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth.

Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?"

Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort.

General references

Let everything be done decently and in order.