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A Life Pleasing to God

Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more.(A)

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10 so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.(A)

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Thanksgiving

We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.(A)

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18 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.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3.18 Other ancient authorities lack Amen

16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

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And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight(A)

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For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with excellence, and excellence with knowledge,(A) and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love. For if these things are yours and are increasing among you, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.(B) For anyone who lacks these things is blind, suffering from eye disease, forgetful of the cleansing of past sins.(C) 10 Therefore, brothers and sisters, be all the more eager to confirm your call and election, for if you do this, you will never stumble.

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22 and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.(A)

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10 and indeed you do love all the brothers and sisters throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, 11 to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you,(A) 12 so that you may behave properly toward outsiders and be dependent on no one.(B)

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12 And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.(A)

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14 I press on toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly[a] call of God in Christ Jesus.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.14 Gk upward

Unity in the Body of Christ

I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,(A)

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Final Greetings and Benediction

11 Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell.[a] Be restored; listen to my appeal;[b] agree with one another; live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13.11 Or rejoice
  2. 13.11 Or encourage one another

The New Life in Christ

12 I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.(A) Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 12.2 Or what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God

Request for Prayer

Finally, brothers and sisters, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified everywhere, just as it is among you,(A)

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The Man of Lawlessness

As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we beg you, brothers and sisters,(A)

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11 As you know, we dealt with each one of you like a father with his children, 12 urging and encouraging you and pleading that you lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.(A)

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Fullness of Life in Christ

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to walk in him,

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27 Only, live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that, whether I come and see you or am absent and hear about you, I will know that you are standing firm in one spirit, striving side by side with one mind for the faith of the gospel

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58 Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.(A)

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He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes[a] to make it bear more fruit.

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Footnotes

  1. 15.2 The same Greek root refers to pruning and cleansing

14 In old age they still produce fruit;
    they are always green and full of sap,(A)

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Yet the righteous hold to their way,
    and they who have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.(A)

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yet I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love—and I, Paul, do this as an old man and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus.[a] 10 I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 9 Or as an ambassador of Christ Jesus, and now also his prisoner

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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