Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,

or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good.

Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the Law through the body of Christ, that you may become Another's; to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit unto God.

For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the emptiness of their mind,

that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which is corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,

and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Therefore do not be partakers with them.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

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.

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

that being justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

But, like Adam, they have transgressed the covenant; they have dealt treacherously against Me there.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual perversions, murders,

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men;

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; Your Spirit is good. Lead me into the land of uprightness.

Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.

For whoever does the will of My Father in Heaven, that one is My brother and sister and mother.

Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to Him, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you.

For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother.

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

If anyone wants to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak out of Myself.

Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

and He died for all, that those who live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them and rose again.

For I through the Law died to the Law that I might live to God.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the full true knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand complete and full-grown in all the will of God;

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

make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Of His own purpose He brought us forth by the Word of Truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

And the world is passing away, and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.