to those who, by patience in well-doing, are seeking for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life;

Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, but you have been standing by faith. Do not cherish lofty thoughts; but fear.

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, through the mercies of God, to present, your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service;

and he not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

For he that in these things serves Christ, is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men.

For Macedonia and Achaia were well pleased to make a certain contribution to the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem.

Indeed, they were well pleased, and their debtors they are; for, if the gentiles were partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things.