For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will have praise from him.

And although you were once alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping against us with evil words. And not satisfied with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.

For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God's will, than for doing wrong.

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does.

And if you greet only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. You are doing just as your fathers did.

I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have some harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath."

But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

And what I am doing, I will also continue to do, in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things of which they boast.

Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.

Finally, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.

And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will continue to do the things which we command.

But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary of doing good.

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

And they said to him, "By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do them?"

But some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"

Then they said to him, "What must we do, to be doing the works of God?"

"Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he is doing?"

Jesus answered him, "You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand."