Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God,

For God approves a man if from a sense of duty he endures suffering unjustly inflicted??20 for what credit is there in your enduring being beaten for doing wrong? But if you endure suffering for doing what is right, you have God's approval.

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

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom an excuse for doing wrong, but be slaves of God.

But if a man is caught doing something wrong, brothers, you are spiritual, and you must set him right, in a spirit of gentleness. Think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

And it has brought you, who were once estranged from him, hostile in attitude and engaged in doing wrong (though now he has reconciled you

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

and said to him, "What authority have you for doing as you do? And who gave you a right to do as you are doing?"

We have faith in you through the Lord that you are doing and will keep doing what we direct you to do.

I do not understand what I am doing, for I do not do what I want to do; I do things that I hate.

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you, the Son cannot do anything of his own accord, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

Yet I know, brothers, that you did not know what you were doing, any more than your leaders did;

So the man who marries her does what is right, and the man who refrains from doing so does even better.

And I shall go on doing as I do, so as to cut the ground from under those who want to make out that in their boasted apostleship they work on the same terms that I do.

and the Law has nothing to do with faith; it teaches that it is the man who does these things that will find life by doing them.

And they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do.

I know the things you do, your love and faithfulness and helpfulness and endurance, and I know that you are now doing more than you did at first.

So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." Jesus said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do."

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

I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

But while he was thinking of doing this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not fear to take Mary, your wife, to your home, for it is through the influence of the holy Spirit that she is to become a mother.

As long as it was unsold was it not yours, and after it was sold was not the money under your control? How could you think of doing such a thing? You did not lie to men but to God!"

What good did you get from doing the things you are now ashamed of? Why, they result in death!

And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,

But the Pharisees saw it and said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing something which it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath!"

He said to them, 'This is some enemy's doing.' And they said to him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'

As far as preaching the good news is concerned, that is nothing for me to boast of, for I cannot help doing it. For I am ruined if I do not preach.

So whether you are eating or drinking or doing anything else, do it all to the honor of God.

This is all I want to ask you: Did you receive the Spirit through doing what the Law commands, or through believing the message you heard?

Let us not get tired of doing right, for at the proper time we shall reap, if we do not give out.

But he answered one of them, 'My friend, I am doing you no injustice. Did you not agree with me on a dollar?

When he had entered the Temple, and was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came up to him, and said, "What authority have you for doing as you do, and who gave you this authority?"

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

Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God??s indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.

and you are doing it to all the brothers all over Macedonia. But we do entreat you, brothers, to surpass yourselves

Do not harden your hearts as your forefathers provoked me by doing, As in that time of trial in the desert,

So while we can still speak of Today, if you hear him speak, do not harden your hearts, as they provoked him by doing.

And the Pharisees said to him, "Look! Why are they doing what it is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

If you really obey the supreme law where the Scripture says, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right,

You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.

So if I come, I will bring up the things that he is doing, and how he is maliciously accusing me. Not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers himself, and he is interfering with those who want to do so, and has them put out of the church.

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

Is he grateful to the slave for doing what he has been ordered to do?

and said to him, "Tell us what authority you have for doing as you do, or who gave you any such authority?"

And Jesus said to them, "Nor will I tell you what authority I have for doing as I do."

Then they said to him, "Then what sign do you show for us to see and so come to believe you? What work are you doing?

You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."

But if I am doing them, then even if you will not believe me, believe the things I do, in order that you may realize and learn that the Father is in union with me, and I am in union with the Father."

When he had washed their feet and put on his clothes and taken his place, he said to them again, "Do you understand what I have been doing to you?

Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? I am not the source of the words that I say to you, but the Father who is united with me is doing these things himself.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what he has commanded me to do. Come, let us go away.