For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
“For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”
But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.
so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.
The upright see it and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth.
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
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