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.

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

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

for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live.

Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead.

Where your forefathers put my doings to the proof for forty years, Though they saw them all the time.

and they were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Great and marvelous are your doings, Lord God Almighty! Upright and true are your ways, King of the Ages!

For the man who wrongs anyone will be paid back for the wrong he has done; there will be no exceptions.

So there was a great uproar, and some scribes of the Pharisees' party got up and insisted, "We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose some spirit or angel really spoke to him!"

Or let these men themselves tell what they found wrong in me when I appeared before the council??21 unless it was the one thing I shouted out as I stood among them??It is on the question of the resurrection of the dead that I am here on trial before you today!' "

"So have your principal men go down with me," he said, "and present charges against the man, if there is anything wrong with him."

But Paul said, "I am standing before the emperor's court, where I ought to be tried. I have done the Jews no wrong, as you can easily see.

but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury,

crushing distress and anguish, every human soul of them that actually does what is wrong??he Jew first, and the Greek also;

But if our wrongdoing brings out the uprightness of God, what are we to say? Is it wrong in God (I am putting it in ordinary human terms) to inflict punishment?

Then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you! Go away from me, you who do wrong!'

and you must not offer the parts of your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrong, but offer yourselves to God as men brought back from death to life, and offer the parts of your bodies to him as instruments of uprightness.

I do not do the good things that I want to do; I do the wrong things that I do not want to do.

I find the law to be that I who want to do right am dogged by what is wrong.

Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.

for they are God's agents to do you good. But if you do wrong you may well be afraid, for they do not carry swords for nothing. They are God's servants, to execute his wrath upon wrongdoers.

You must not, just for the sake of food, undo the work of God. It is true, everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to hurt the consciences of others by what he eats.

but the man who has misgivings about eating, and then eats, is thereby condemned, for he is not following his convictions, and anything that does not rest on conviction is wrong.

But it is you who wrong and rob others, and your own brothers at that!

and finally he was seen by me also, as though I were born at the wrong time.

Do you think that I did wrong in degrading myself to uplift you, because I preached God's good news to you without any compensation?

For what is there in which the other churches had the better of you, except in the fact that I would not permit myself to be a burden to you? You must forgive me that wrong!

But I pray to God that you may not do wrong??ot to prove me equal to the test, but that you should do right even if I fail to stand it.

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.

Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God.

No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind.

No one is to wrong or defraud his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all such things, as we told you before, in the most solemn terms.

and said, "I did wrong when I handed an innocent man over to death!" They said, "What is that to us? You see to it yourself."

He said, "Why, what has he done that is wrong?" But they shouted all the louder, "Have him crucified!"

You have loved right and hated wrong! That is why God, your God, has anointed you with exhilarating oil beyond all your comrades."

But full-grown men have a right to solid food, for their faculties are trained by practice to distinguish right and wrong.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of wrong the tongue proves in our bodies, soiling the whole body and setting fire to the whole round of nature, and set on fire itself by hell.

You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures.

But, as it is, you pride yourselves on your pretensions. All such pride is wrong.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon upright men, And his ears are open to their entreaty, But the Lord's face is set against men that do wrong."

suffering wrong as the reward for their wrongdoing. They find pleasure in the indulgence of the moment; they are a stain and a disgrace, and they revel in their deceit while they join in your religious meals.

If we acknowledge our sins, he is upright and can be depended on to forgive our sins and cleanse us from everything wrong.

Dear friend, do not follow bad examples, but good ones. The man who does right is a child of God; the man who does wrong has never seen God.

Jesus said to them, "Does not this show that you are wrong, and do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God?

He is not God of dead men but of living! You are entirely wrong."

And Pilate said to them, "Why, what has he done that is wrong?" But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"