Do not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because what he was doing was evil and his brother's actions were righteous.

yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.

Live like free people, and do not use your freedom as an excuse for doing evil. Instead, be God's servants.

There will be suffering and anguish for every human being who practices doing evil, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.

You who were once alienated with a hostile attitude, doing evil,

The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing.

"I know what you've been doing, your toil, and your endurance. I also know that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not, and have found them to be false.

But I will go on doing what I'm doing in order to deny an opportunity to those people who want an opportunity to be recognized as our equals in the work they are boasting about.

After all, if it is the will of God, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.

so do whatever they tell you and follow it, but stop doing what they do, because they don't do what they say.

"Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.

I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't practice what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.

But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me.

What good does it do if, when you sin, you patiently receive punishment for it? But if you suffer for doing good and receive it patiently, you have God's approval.

and asked him, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority to do them?"

He doesn't praise the servant for doing what was commanded, does he?

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now), so that I might reap a harvest among you, just as I have among the rest of the gentiles.

What benefit did you get from doing those things you are now ashamed of? For those things resulted in death.

The right thing to do is to avoid eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that makes your brother stumble, upset, or weak.

He did the same with the cup after the supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. As often as you drink from it, keep doing this in memory of me."

If Timothy comes, see to it that he does not have anything to be afraid of while he is with you, for he is doing the Lord's work as I am.

I do not misapply God's grace, for if righteousness comes about by doing what the Law requires, then the Messiah died for nothing.

I want to learn only one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the actions of the Law or by believing what you heard?

Let's not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Whatever you do, work at it wholeheartedly as though you were doing it for the Lord and not merely for people.

Now then, brothers, you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, as in fact you are doing. We ask and encourage you in the Lord to do so even more.

We have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.

Brothers, do not get tired of doing what is right.

For you spent enough time in the past doing what the gentiles like to do, living in sensuality, sinful desires, drunkenness, wild celebrations, drinking parties, and detestable idolatry.

And if you greet only your relatives, that's no great thing you're doing, is it? Even the unbelievers do the same, don't they?

When the Pharisees saw this, they told him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!"