So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation,
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
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