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

²⁰ giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,^(A)

⁶ Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.^(A)

¹⁷ And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.^(A)

¹⁵ Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.^(A)

² 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)

²¹ He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”^(A)

Psalm 34

Praise for Deliverance from Trouble

Of David, when he feigned madness before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away.

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

¹⁷ And the world and its desire^[a] are passing away, but those who do the will of God abide forever.^(A)