For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep [me] from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested.

And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

"I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness which [are] by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve [me] for His heavenly kingdom. To Him [be] glory forever and ever. Amen!

But in all [things] we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses,

For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

Greet Apelles, approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the [household] of Aristobulus.

For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Blessed [is] the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

providing honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.

Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things [are] noble, whatever things [are] just, whatever things [are] pure, whatever things [are] lovely, whatever things [are] of good report, if [there is] any virtue and if [there is] anything praiseworthy -- meditate on these things.

for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

having your conduct 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.

by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and [yet] true;

as unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and [yet] not killed;

"For [his] letters," they say, "[are] weighty and powerful, but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible."

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.

being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.