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15 For it is God’s will that by doing right you should silence the ignorance of the foolish.

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17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil.

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and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.(A)

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12 Conduct yourselves honorably among the gentiles, so that, though they malign you as evildoers, they may see your honorable deeds and glorify God when he comes to judge.[a](A)

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  1. 2.12 Gk God on the day of visitation

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

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18 give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

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

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10 But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct.

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12 These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed,[a] they also will be destroyed,

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  1. 2.12 Gk in their destruction

so as to live for the rest of your time in the flesh no longer by human desires but by the will of God.(A)

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13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,(A)

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not with a slavery performed merely for looks, to please people, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul. Render service with enthusiasm, as for the Lord and not for humans,

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Law or Faith

You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited as crucified!(A)

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21 for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.(A)

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22 “For my people are foolish;
    they do not know me;
they are stupid children;
    they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil
    but do not know how to do good.”(A)

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Lay aside immaturity and live,
    and walk in the way of insight.”(A)

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42 The upright see it and are glad,
    and all wickedness stops its mouth.(A)

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10 But he said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive good from God and not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.(A)

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For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.(A)

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Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.(A)

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The boastful will not stand before your eyes;
    you hate all evildoers.(A)

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16 So the poor have hope,
    and injustice shuts its mouth.(A)

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Do you thus repay the Lord,
    O foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father who created you,
    who made you and established you?(A)

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