Romans 14:18

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.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

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

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

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.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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.

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.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

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?

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.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

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.”

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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.

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

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.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

Abstain from every form of evil.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

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

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

About Asher he said, “Asher is blessed with children. Let him be acceptable to his brothers. Let him dip his foot in oil.

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

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.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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.

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.