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Philemon 1:6

Good News Translation

My prayer is that our fellowship with you as believers will bring about a deeper understanding of every blessing which we have in our life in union with Christ.

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The servant who had received five thousand coins went at once and invested his money and earned another five thousand.

In the same way your light must shine before people, so that they will see the good things you do and praise your Father in heaven.

their secret thoughts will be brought into the open, and they will bow down and worship God, confessing, “Truly God is here among you!”

There is a real opportunity here for great and worthwhile work, even though there are many opponents.

In conclusion, my friends, fill your minds with those things that are good and that deserve praise: things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and honorable.

For this reason we have always prayed for you, ever since we heard about you. We ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will, with all the wisdom and understanding that his Spirit gives.

and have put on the new self. This is the new being which God, its Creator, is constantly renewing in his own image, in order to bring you to a full knowledge of himself.

Our people must learn to spend their time doing good, in order to provide for real needs; they should not live useless lives.

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.

My friends, what good is it for one of you to say that you have faith if your actions do not prove it? Can that faith save you?

So it is with faith: if it is alone and includes no actions, then it is dead.

Your conduct among the heathen should be so good that when they accuse you of being evildoers, they will have to recognize your good deeds and so praise God on the Day of his coming.

In the same way you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands, so that if any of them do not believe God's word, your conduct will win them over to believe. It will not be necessary for you to say a word,

but do it with gentleness and respect. Keep your conscience clear, so that when you are insulted, those who speak evil of your good conduct as followers of Christ will become ashamed of what they say.

These are the qualities you need, and if you have them in abundance, they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.




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