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

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.

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

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.

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

But when you give to the poor, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Nevertheless, you are doing the right thing if you obey the royal Law in keeping with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as yourself."

For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

But even if you should suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. "Never be afraid of their threats, and never get upset.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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!"

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?

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.

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

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 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?