Colossians 3:20

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him.

We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

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

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

She said to her, “All that you say, I will do.”

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”

Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.