Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Christian Conduct
1 Remind your people to submit
to rulers and authorities, to obey
them, and to be ready to do good in
every way.
2 Tell them not to speak
evil of anyone, but to be peaceful
and friendly, and always to show a
gentle attitude toward everyone.
3 For we ourselves were once foolish,
disobedient, and wrong. We were
slaves to passions and pleasures of
all kinds. We spent our lives in malice
and envy; others hated us and we
hated them.
4 But when the kindness
and love of God our Savior was revealed,
5 he saved us. It was not because
of any good deeds that we
ourselves had done, but because of
his own mercy that he saved us,
through the Holy Spirit, who gives
us new birth and new life by washing
us.
6 God poured out the Holy
Spirit abundantly on us through
Jesus Christ our Savior,
7 so that by
his grace we might be put right with
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God and come into possession of the
eternal life we hope for.
8 This is a
true saying.
8 I want you to give special emphasis
to these matters, so that those
who believe in God may be concerned
with giving their time to
doing good deeds, which are good
and useful for everyone.
9 But avoid
stupid arguments, long lists of ancestors,
quarrels, and fights about
the Law. They are useless and
worthless.
10 Give at least two warnings
to the person who causes divisions,
and then have nothing more to
do with him.
11 You know that such a
person is corrupt, and his sins prove
that he is wrong.
Final Instructions
12 When I send Artemas or Tychicus
to you, do your best to come to
me in Nicopolis, because I have decided
to spend the winter there. note
13 Do your best to help Zenas the
lawyer and Apollos to get started on
their travels, and see to it that they
have everything they need. note
14 Our
people must learn to spend their
time doing good, in order to provide
for real needs; they should not live
useless lives.
15 All who are with me send you
greetings. Give our greetings to our
friends in the faith.
15 God's grace be with you all.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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