and you must stop offering to sin the parts of your bodies as instruments for wrongdoing, but you must once for all offer yourselves to God as persons raised from the dead to live on perpetually, and once for all offer the parts of your bodies to God as instruments for right-doing.

Do you not know that when you habitually offer yourselves to anyone for obedience to him, you are slaves to that one whom you are in the habit of obeying, whether it is the slavery to sin whose end is death or to obedience whose end is right-doing?

and since you have been freed from sin, you have become the slaves of right-doing.

I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.

my message of truth, and the power of God; with the weapons of right-doing in my right hand and my left;

Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness?

Hold your position, then, with your waist encircled with the belt of truth, put on right-doing as a coat of mail,

men that are abounding in the fruits of right-doing with the help of Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

For everyone who uses milk alone is inexperienced in the message of right-doing; he is only an infant.

because we know that a man does not come into right standing with God by doing what the law commands, but by simple trust in Christ, we too have trusted in Christ Jesus, in order to come into right standing with God by simple trust in Christ and not by doing what the law commands, because by doing what the law commands no man can come into right standing with God.

Dearly beloved, do not follow bad examples but good ones. Whoever practices doing right is God's child; whoever practices doing wrong has never seen God.

For it is better, if the will of God should plan it so, to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.

For civil authorities are not a terror to the man who does right, but they are to the man who does wrong. Do you want to have no dread of the civil authorities? Then practice doing right and you will be commended for it.

and be actually in union with Him, not having a supposed right standing with God which depends on my doing what the law commands, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the real right standing with God which originates from Him and rests on faith.

So Jesus answered them: "I most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, except as He sees the Father doing it, for whatever the Father is in the habit of doing the Son also persists in doing.

But if I am always doing what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is right.

Let the person who is doing evil do evil still; let the filthy person be filthy still; let the upright person still do right; let the consecrated person still be consecrated.

For the kingdom of God does not consist in what we eat and drink, but in doing right, in peace and joy through the Holy Spirit;

But the father who stands firm in his purpose, without having any necessity for doing so, and he has made the decision in his own heart to keep her single, will do what is right.

So it is no surprise if his servants also masquerade as ministers for doing right, whose doom shall be in accordance with what they do.

But I am praying God that you may never do anything wrong, not to show that I am standing the test, but that you should continue doing right, though I should fail to stand the test.

But whenever you, a follower of mine, do a deed of charity, never let your own left hand know what your right hand is doing,

But if you really observe the law of the King in accordance with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right;

but in every nation the man who reveres God and practices doing right is acceptable to Him.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free so far as doing right was concerned.

You are, indeed, doing right to give thanks, but your neighbor is not built up.

Brothers, if anybody is caught in the very act of doing wrong, you who are spiritual, in the spirit of gentleness, must set him right; each of you continuing to think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

Masters, you must practice doing the right and square things by your slaves, for you know that you have a Master in heaven.

But you, brothers, must never grow tired of doing right.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for being and doing right, for they will be completely satisfied.

"Blessed are those who suffer persecution for being and doing right, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

All Scripture is inspired by God, and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in doing what is right,

Now the crown for doing right awaits me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award me on that day, and not only me but also all who have loved His appearing.

It is a message to be trusted, and I want you to be emphatic about these things, so that those who believe in God may be careful to take the lead in doing good. These things are right and render service to mankind.

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

They were submissive to their husbands, as Sarah, for example, obeyed Abraham and called him master. You have become true daughters of hers, if you practice doing right and cease from every fear.

Instead, you are happy, even if you should suffer for doing right. Never be afraid of their threats, and never be disturbed,

Therefore, those who suffer in accordance with God's will must also, in doing right, entrust their souls to the Creator who is faithful.

Dear children, avoid letting anyone lead you astray. Whoever practices doing right is upright, just as He is upright.

But if you do get married, you have not sinned in doing so. And if a girl gets married, she has not sinned in doing so. But those who do will have trouble in their earthly life, and I am trying to spare you this.

I most solemnly say to you, whoever perseveres in believing in me can himself do the things that I am doing; yes, he can do even greater things than I am doing, because I am going to the Father.

If I am not doing the things that my Father is doing, do not believe me.

must have a reputation for doing good deeds, as bringing up children, being hospitable to strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping people in distress, or devoting herself to any sort of doing good.

Indeed, I do not understand what I do, for I do not practice what I want to do, but I am always doing what I hate.

But if I do the things that I do not want to do, it is really not I that am doing these things, but it is sin which has its home within me.

For the civil authorities are God's servants to do you good. But if you practice doing wrong, you should dread them, for they do not wield the sword for nothing. Indeed, they are God's servants to inflict punishment upon people who do wrong.

So everything they tell you, do and practice, but stop doing what they do, for they preach but do not practice.

and said to Him, "What sort of authority have you for doing as you do? Or, who gave you the authority to do as you do?"

"And yet, I know, brothers, that you did not realize what you were doing, any more than your leaders did.

But the man who has misgivings about eating, if he then eats, has already condemned himself by so doing, because he did not follow his faith, and any action that does not follow one's faith is a sin.

Now if a father thinks that he is not doing the proper thing regarding his single daughter, if she is past the bloom of her youth, and she ought to do so, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the daughter and her suitor marry.

For if I do preach the good news, I have no ground for boasting of it, for I cannot help doing it. Yes, indeed, I am accursed if I do not preach the good news.

and the law has nothing to do with faith, but it says, "It is the man who does these things that will live by doing them."

So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He also answered them, "Nor am I going to tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do.

So they said to Jesus, "We do not know." Jesus also said to them, "Nor am I going to tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do."

And if you practice doing good only to those who do good to you, what credit do you get for that? Even notorious sinners practice the same.

Does he praise the slave for doing what he was ordered to do?

"Our law does not condemn a man before it hears what he has to say and finds out what he is doing, does it?"

For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight.

And you, who pose as a judge of those who practice such sins and yet continue doing the same yourself, do you for once suppose that you are going to escape the judgment of God?

What benefit did you then derive from doing the things of which you are now ashamed? None, for they end in death.

for the kingdom of God does not consist in talking but in doing.

The wife does not have the right to do as she pleases with her own body; the husband has his right to it. In the same way the husband does not have the right to do as he pleases with his own body; the wife has her right to it.

For if I do boast a little too much about my authority, which the Lord gave me for building you up and not for tearing you down, I shall never have to blush for doing so.

I want to ask you only this one thing: Did you receive the Spirit by doing what the law commands, or by believing the message you heard?

Let us stop getting tired of doing good, for at the proper time we shall reap if we do not give up.

For He has made us what we are, because He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do.

So whenever you do your deeds of charity, never blow your own horn in public, as the hypocrites are in the habit of doing in the synagogues and on the street corners, to be praised by the people. I solemnly say to you, they already have their reward.

For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have shown His name in the service you have rendered for your fellow-Christians, and still are doing.

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, "Just look! Your disciples are doing something that it is against the law to do on the sabbath!"

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God.

So, if I come, I will remind you of what he is doing, how with malicious insinuations he is talking about me. Not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers himself, he interferes with those who want to do so, and tries to put them out of the church.

But you have it to your credit that you hate what the Nicolaitans are doing, as I do too.

"I know what you are doing, I know your love and faithfulness, your service and patient endurance, and I know that you are now working harder than you did at first.

But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no injustice. Did you not contract with me at twenty cents?

Jesus answered them, "Let me too ask you just one question, and if you answer it, I will tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do.

So the Pharisees were saying to Him, "Just look! Why are they doing on the Sabbath what it is against the law to do?"

Jesus said to them, "Let me ask you just one question, and if you answer me, I will tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do.

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

and said to Him, "Tell us what sort of authority you have for doing as you do, or who is it that gave you such authority?"

Then Jesus said to them, "Nor am I going to tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do."

Jesus answered them, "I have already told you so, but you do not believe me. The works which I am doing on my Father's authority are my credentials,

Jesus answered him, "You do not now understand what I am doing, but by-and-by you will learn."

Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me? I am not saying these things on my own authority, but the Father who always remains in union with me is doing these things Himself.

You must believe me, that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must do so because of the very things that I am doing.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what the Father has ordered me to do. Get up and let us go away."

You are my friends, if you keep on doing what I command you to do.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father.