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;
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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.
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.
When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,
For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.
Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.
and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
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