Romans 6:17
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17 But thanks be to God that you who were slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted(A)
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2 Timothy 1:13
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13 Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.(A)
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1 Peter 2:9
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9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,[a] in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.(A)
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- 2.9 Gk a people for his possession
2 Corinthians 2:14
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14 But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing him.[a]
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- 2.14 Gk the fragrance of the knowledge of him
Romans 1:8
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Prayer of Thanksgiving
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the world.(A)
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3 John 3
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3 For I was overjoyed when some brothers and sisters arrived and testified to your faithfulness to the truth, how you walk in the truth.(A)
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Romans 16:26
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26 but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all the gentiles, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith(A)—
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Romans 15:18
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18 For I will not be so bold as to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the gentiles, by word and deed,
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Acts 11:18
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18 When they heard this, they were silenced. And they praised God, saying, “Then God has given even to the gentiles the repentance that leads to life.”(A)
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2 John 4
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Truth and Love
4 I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
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2 Timothy 1:3-5
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Thanksgiving and Encouragement
3 I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.(A) 4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you.(B)
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Colossians 1:3-4
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Paul Thanks God for the Colossians
3 In our prayers for you we always thank God, the[a] Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,(A) 4 for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,(B)
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- 1.3 Other ancient authorities read thank the God and
Ephesians 2:5-10
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5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ[a]—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places[b] in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— 9 not the result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.(A)
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1 Peter 4:17
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17 For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; if it begins with us, what will be the end for those who do not obey the gospel of God?(A)
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1 Peter 4:2-5
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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) 3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(B) 4 They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.[a](C) 5 But they will have to give an accounting to him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.(D)
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- 4.4 Or they malign you
1 Peter 3:1
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Wives and Husbands
3 Wives, in the same way, be subject to your husbands, so that, even if some of them do not obey the word, they may be won over without a word by their wives’ conduct,(A)
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1 Peter 1:22
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22 Now that you have purified your souls[a] by your obedience to the truth[b] so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.[c](A)
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Hebrews 11:8
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The Faith of Abraham
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance, and he set out, not knowing where he was going.(A)
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Hebrews 5:9
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9 and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,(A)
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Philemon 4
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Philemon’s Love and Faith
4 I thank my God always when I mention you[a] in my prayers,
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Titus 3:3-7
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3 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) 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,(B) 5 he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water[a] of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.(C) 6 This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.(D)
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- 3.5 Gk washing
1 Timothy 1:13-16
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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) 14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me[a] with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.(B) 15 The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost.(C) 16 But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience as an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life.
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- 1.14 Gk lacks for me
2 Thessalonians 1:3
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Thanksgiving
3 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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1 Thessalonians 3:9
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9 How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we feel before our God because of you?
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1 Thessalonians 1:2-3
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The Thessalonians’ Faith and Example
2 We always give thanks to God for all of you and mention you in our prayers, constantly(A) 3 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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