Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as though you were working for the Lord and not for people.

Throughout all Judah, King Hezekiah did what was right and what was pleasing to the LORD his God.

He was successful, because everything he did for the Temple or in observance of the Law, he did in a spirit of complete loyalty and devotion to his God.

Remember the LORD in everything you do, and he will show you the right way.

Those who think highly of a certain day do so in honor of the Lord; those who will eat anything do so in honor of the Lord, because they give thanks to God for the food. Those who refuse to eat certain things do so in honor of the Lord, and they give thanks to God.

If we live, it is for the Lord that we live, and if we die, it is for the Lord that we die. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

Well, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, do it all for God's glory.

encourage you and strengthen you to always do and say what is good.

My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

Each nation worships and obeys its own god, but we will worship and obey the LORD our God forever and ever.

Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

Reach out your hand to heal, and grant that wonders and miracles may be performed through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."

All the Jews and Gentiles who lived in Ephesus heard about this; they were all filled with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was given greater honor.

Your lives will be filled with the truly good qualities which only Jesus Christ can produce, for the glory and praise of God.

Finally, our friends, you learned from us how you should live in order to please God. This is, of course, the way you have been living. And now we beg and urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to do even more.

For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

(SEE 1:11)

Keep your roots deep in him, build your lives on him, and become stronger in your faith, as you were taught. And be filled with thanksgiving.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because the whole world is hearing about your faith.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, always give thanks for everything to God the Father.

be thankful in all circumstances. This is what God wants from you in your life in union with Christ Jesus.

Let us, then, always offer praise to God as our sacrifice through Jesus, which is the offering presented by lips that confess him as Lord.

Come as living stones, and let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy priests to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.

But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.

Those who preach must preach God's messages; those who serve must serve with the strength that God gives them, so that in all things praise may be given to God through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and power forever and ever. Amen.

and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him.

and all will openly proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

From Paul, Silas, and Timothy--- To the people of the church in Thessalonica, who belong to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be yours.

For God never said to any of his angels, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father." Nor did God say about any angel, "I will be his Father, and he will be my Son."

For those who reject the Son reject also the Father; those who accept the Son have the Father also.