15 For this is the will of God, (A)that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.

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15 For it is God’s will(A) that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.(B)

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17 For (A)it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

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17 For it is better, if it is God’s will,(A) to suffer for doing good(B) than for doing evil.

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and (A)sound speech that cannot be condemned, (B)so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

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and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.(A)

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12 (A)Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, (B)they may see your good deeds and glorify God on (C)the day of visitation.

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12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds(A) and glorify God(B) on the day he visits us.

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26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like (A)a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

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26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

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18 (A)give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

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18 give thanks in all circumstances;(A) for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

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For this is the will of God, (A)your sanctification:[a] (B)that you abstain from sexual immorality;

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or your holiness

It is God’s will(A) that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;(B)

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10 (A)But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.

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10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.(A)

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12 (A)But these, like irrational animals, (B)creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,

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12 But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.(A)

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(A)so as to live for (B)the rest of the time in the flesh (C)no longer for human passions but (D)for the will of God.

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As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires,(A) but rather for the will of God.

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13 though formerly I was a blasphemer, (A)persecutor, and insolent opponent. But (B)I received mercy (C)because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

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13 Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor(A) and a violent man, I was shown mercy(B) because I acted in ignorance and unbelief.(C)

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not by the way of eye-service, as (A)people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,

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Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ,(A) doing the will of God from your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people,(B)

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By Faith, or by Works of the Law?

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? (A)It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly (B)portrayed as crucified.

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Faith or Works of the Law

You foolish(A) Galatians!(B) Who has bewitched you?(C) Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.(D)

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