- However, to avoid the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
- Each of us must consider his neighbor’s good for the purpose of building him up.
- For God will repay everyone in accordance with what his deeds deserve.
- However, each one of you should love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
- Each person should give as much as he has decided in his heart, not with reluctance or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
- So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough troubles of its own.
- And so does kindness, O Lord.
You reward each person
in accordance with his deeds. - Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which separated and came to rest on each one of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages, as the Spirit enabled them to do so.
- Therefore, encourage one another and strengthen one another, as indeed you are doing.
- When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your wicked ways.
- For I am longing to see you so that I may bestow on you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— or, rather, so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
- It is the will of God that you should lead a life of sanctity. You must refrain from sexual immorality. Each of you must learn to acquire a wife from pure and honorable motives, not to gratify passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.
- One person may consider one day to be more sacred than another, while another may judge all days to be alike. Let everyone be convinced in his own beliefs.
- Behold, I am coming soon, and I will bring with me my reward to repay everyone as his deeds deserve.
- Bear with one another, and forgive one another if anyone has reason to be offended with another. You must forgive just as the Lord has forgiven you.
- Make sure that no one pays back evil for evil. Rather, always aim to achieve what is best for each other and for everyone.
- Through the grace that God has bestowed upon me, I advise every one of you not to think of yourself too highly, but to regard yourself objectively, based on the measure of faith that God has granted.
- No one should seek his own advantage in preference to that of his neighbor.
- Rather, be kind to one another and compassionate, and forgive one another as God has forgiven you in Christ.
- Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vanity, but humbly regard others as better than yourselves.
- Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of your opportunity. Let your speech always be gracious and seasoned with wisdom, so that you will know how to respond properly to all.
- Brethren, we must always give thanks to God for you, and it is only right that we do so. For your faith grows ever more, and the love that all of you have for one another continues to increase.
- Pay to each person what is rightfully his—taxes to the one to whom taxes are due, tolls to the one to whom tolls are due, respect to the one to whom respect is due, honor to the one to whom honor is due.
- For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the Spirit, and those of the Spirit are opposed to the flesh. They are in conflict with one another, so that you cannot do what you want.
- And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and the scrolls were opened. Then another scroll was opened, the book of life, and the dead were judged according to their deeds, as were recorded in the scrolls. The sea gave up all the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them. The dead were judged according to their deeds.
This is my commandment:
love one another
as I have loved you.The way of God is blameless,
and the Lord’s promise proves true;
he is a shield to all
who flee to him for safety. Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly, as if you were doing it for the Lord and not for others, since you know that you will receive from the Lord an inheritance as your reward for you are serving the Lord Christ.Next verse!With image