Romans 2:14

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

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

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

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

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

What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

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.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Abstain from every form of evil.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

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.

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

They went out and preached that people should repent.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

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

that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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

I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

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

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.”

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

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

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’

When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

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

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

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.

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?