that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh in the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men,

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual perversion;

in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

having your behavior honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

The upright see it and rejoice, and all iniquity stops its mouth.

sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he who is in opposition may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.

although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I received mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,

But these speak evil of things they do not know; and whatever they understand naturally, like animals without reason, in these things they corrupt themselves.

Do you deal thus with Jehovah, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones speak. Shall we indeed receive good from God, and shall we not accept adversity? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

The boastful shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all doers of iniquity.

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

For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

And everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be likened to a foolish man who built his house on the sand;

And five of them were wise, and five foolish.

because, although they know God, they do not glorify Him as God, nor are thankful, but become vain in their reasonings, and their stupid hearts are darkened.

O foolish Galatians. Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.