For {it is} better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by {your} good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. {whereas: or, wherein}

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

For this is the will of God, {even} your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

For my people {is} foolish, they have not known me; they {are} sottish children, and they have none understanding: they {are} wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified {him} not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

That he no longer should live the rest of {his} time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did {it} ignorantly in unbelief.

The righteous shall see {it}, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. {in...: Heb. before thine eyes}

And five of them were wise, and five {were} foolish.

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? {is} not he thy father {that} hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

And whatsoever ye do, do {it} heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as {it is} in heaven.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard {it}, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. {God...: or, the holy God: Heb. the God the holy}

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls {to him} in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

For {it is} better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, {one} Jesus.

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;