I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.

Nor must you surrender any part of yourselves to sin to be used for wicked purposes. Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.

he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God's glory.

So far as the Law is concerned, however, I am dead---killed by the Law itself---in order that I might live for God. I have been put to death with Christ on his cross,

so that it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. This life that I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

You must put to death, then, the earthly desires at work in you, such as sexual immorality, indecency, lust, evil passions, and greed (for greed is a form of idolatry).

For sin pays its wage---death; but God's free gift is eternal life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

To the only God, who alone is all-wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever! Amen.

But these have been written in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through your faith in him you may have life.

He did this to demonstrate for all time to come the extraordinary greatness of his grace in the love he showed us in Christ Jesus.

Your lives will be filled with the truly good qualities which only Jesus Christ can produce, for the glory and praise of God.

And God's peace, which is far beyond human understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with Christ Jesus.

Everything you do or say, then, should be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, as you give thanks through him to God the Father.

Come as living stones, and let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy priests to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.

Those who preach must preach God's messages; those who serve must serve with the strength that God gives them, so that in all things praise may be given to God through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and power forever and ever. Amen.