Plan carefully what you do, and whatever you do will turn out right.

Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

For those who do such things are not serving Christ our Lord, but their own appetites. By their fine words and flattering speech they deceive innocent people.

Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel, and for this reason I am happy about you. I want you to be wise about what is good, but innocent in what is evil.

Then we shall no longer be children, carried by the waves and blown about by every shifting wind of the teaching of deceitful people, who lead others into error by the tricks they invent.

Don't be fools, then, but try to find out what the Lord wants you to do.

My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the Spirit, but test them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God. For many false prophets have gone out everywhere.

Why is a clever person wise? Because he knows what to do. Why is a stupid person foolish? Because he only thinks he knows.

And so, keeping quiet in such evil times is the smart thing to do!

He was a friend of the governor of the island, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. The governor called Barnabas and Saul before him because he wanted to hear the word of God.