So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you. O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”
save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
A Prayer of David. Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
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