Romans 1:8

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

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.

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

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

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

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.

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.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,

To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

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

while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

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Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

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.

Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

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.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

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

We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

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.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.