If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.’
Romans 14:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Whoever serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and receives human approval. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He who serves Christ in this way is acceptable and pleasing to God and is approved by men. American Standard Version (1901) For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men. Common English Bible Whoever serves Christ this way pleases God and gets human approval. Catholic Public Domain Version For he who serves Christ in this, pleases God and is proven before men. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For he that in this serveth Christ, pleaseth God, and is approved of men. |
If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.’
Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works.
‘It is like a man on a journey, who left his house, gave authority to his servants, gave each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to be alert.
If anyone serves me, he must follow me. Where I am, there my servant also will be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honour him.
but in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Do not lack diligence in zeal; be fervent in the Spirit; , serve the Lord.
Who are you to judge another’s household servant? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand, because the Lord is able to make him stand.
because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. , They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.
But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification #– #and the outcome is eternal life!
For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave.
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting deceitfully or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.
Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your consciences.
Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to him.
Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties,
Indeed, we are giving careful thought to do what is right, not only before the Lord but also before people.
But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you provided #– #a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable #– #if there is any moral excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy #– #dwell on these things.
knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn to practise godliness towards their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.
Conduct yourselves honourably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.
For what credit is there if when you do wrong and are beaten, you endure it? But when you do what is good and suffer, if you endure it, this brings favour with God.
you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Yet do this with gentleness and reverence, keeping a clear conscience, so that when you are accused, those who disparage your good conduct in Christ will be put to shame.