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

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

⁸ 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.

^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.

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

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.

³ For this is the will of God, ^(A)your sanctification:^{[a] (B)}that you abstain from sexual immorality;

^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.

^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,

^2 (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.