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Behaviour » Behaviour, exhortations concerning
behaves not unseemly, seeks not her own, is not provoked, takes no account of evil,
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so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ;
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For ye yourselves know that ye should imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you;
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It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach,
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that aged women, in like manner, be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
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Christian conduct » Behaviour, exhortations concerning
behaves not unseemly, seeks not her own, is not provoked, takes no account of evil,
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so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ;
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For ye yourselves know that ye should imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you;
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It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach,
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that aged women, in like manner, be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
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Christian conduct » Harmlessness
that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, irreproachable in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world,
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"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; become ye, therefore, as wise as the serpents and as innocent as doves.
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so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ;
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For your obedience reached unto all. I rejoice, therefore, over you; but I wish you to be wise as to that which is good, but simple as to evil.
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For such a High Priest was befitting us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
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Grace of God » Growth in
having become persuaded of this very thing, that He Who began in you a good work will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ;
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night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and perfect the deficiencies in your faith?
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and not holding fast the Head from Whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.
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But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever.
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We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because your faith is growing exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;
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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all discernment; so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ; being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Not that I already obtained, or have already been made perfect; but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before. I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. read more.
Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, think this: and, if in anything ye think differently, even this God will reveal to you;
Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, think this: and, if in anything ye think differently, even this God will reveal to you;
to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;
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and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, as we also do toward you, to the end that He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the teaching of immersions, and laying on of hands, of a resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this will we do, if, indeed, God permit.
Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings, as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation, if ye tasted that the Lord is gracious;
Offence » Saints should » Be without
so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ;
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Religion » Examples of piety » Sincerity a mark of
so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ;
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therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
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For we are not as the many, making merchandise of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
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in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in teaching, showing incorruptness, gravity,
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Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.
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Sincerity » Pray for, on behalf of others
so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ;
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Sincerity » Prayer for, on behalf of others
so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ;
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Tact » Paul » In turning the preaching of his adversaries to advantage
so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ; being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Now I wish you to know, brethren, that the things relating to me have resulted rather in the furtherance of the Gospel; read more.
that my bonds became manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to all the rest; and that the greater part of the brethren, having become confident in the Lord by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear. Some, indeed, preach Christ even because of envy and strife; and some also of good-will; the one, from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the Gospel; but the other proclaim Christ of contention, not sincerely, thinking to add tribulation to my bonds. What then? save that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed; and in this I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. For I know that this will turn out for my salvation, through your supplication and a supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ; according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall in nothing be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life, or through death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if it be to live in flesh, this is to me a fruit of labor; and what I shall choose I know not;
that my bonds became manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to all the rest; and that the greater part of the brethren, having become confident in the Lord by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear. Some, indeed, preach Christ even because of envy and strife; and some also of good-will; the one, from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the Gospel; but the other proclaim Christ of contention, not sincerely, thinking to add tribulation to my bonds. What then? save that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed; and in this I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. For I know that this will turn out for my salvation, through your supplication and a supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ; according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall in nothing be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life, or through death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if it be to live in flesh, this is to me a fruit of labor; and what I shall choose I know not;
True religion » Examples of piety » Sincerity a mark of
so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ;
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therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
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For we are not as the many, making merchandise of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
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in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in teaching, showing incorruptness, gravity,
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Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.
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