Work hard at whatever you do, because there will be no action, no thought, no knowledge, no wisdom in the world of the dead---and that is where you are going.

As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me; night is coming when no one can work.

Jesus answered, "The light will be among you a little longer. Continue on your way while you have the light, so that the darkness will not come upon you; for the one who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

Make good use of every opportunity you have, because these are evil days.

In my life in union with the Lord it is a great joy to me that after so long a time you once more had the chance of showing that you care for me. I don't mean that you had stopped caring for me---you just had no chance to show it.

Be wise in the way you act toward those who are not believers, making good use of every opportunity you have.

He gave himself for us, to rescue us from all wickedness and to make us a pure people who belong to him alone and are eager to do good.

Trust in the LORD and do good; live in the land and be safe.

Turn away from evil and do good, and your descendants will always live in the land;

So I realized that all we can do is be happy and do the best we can while we are still alive.

"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your friends, hate your enemies.'

Then he asked the people, "What does our Law allow us to do on the Sabbath? To help or to harm? To save someone's life or to destroy it?" But they did not say a thing.

No! Love your enemies and do good to them; lend and expect nothing back. You will then have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God. For he is good to the ungrateful and the wicked.

See that no one pays back wrong for wrong, but at all times make it your aim to do good to one another and to all people.

Command those who are rich in the things of this life not to be proud, but to place their hope, not in such an uncertain thing as riches, but in God, who generously gives us everything for our enjoyment.

Command them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share with others.

This is a true saying. I want you to give special emphasis to these matters, so that those who believe in God may be concerned with giving their time to doing good deeds, which are good and useful for everyone.

Do not forget to do good and to help one another, because these are the sacrifices that please God.

My dear friend, do not imitate what is bad, but imitate what is good. Whoever does good belongs to God; whoever does what is bad has not seen God.

So a pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and a slave like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul, the members of the family will be called even worse names!

Whoever does what my Father in heaven wants is my brother, my sister, and my mother."

The King will reply, 'I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!'

So then, you Gentiles are not foreigners or strangers any longer; you are now citizens together with God's people and members of the family of God.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth receives its true name.

But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.

God is not unfair. He will not forget the work you did or the love you showed for him in the help you gave and are still giving to other Christians.

So do not be surprised, my friends, if the people of the world hate you.

Those who hate others are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life in them.

If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God?

This, then, is how we will know that we belong to the truth; this is how we will be confident in God's presence.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.

My dear friend, you are so faithful in the work you do for other Christians, even when they are strangers.

For they set out on their trip in the service of Christ without accepting any help from unbelievers.