Vanity of things
You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them–the usual variations on idolatry–will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere
Dialect of Thanksgiving
Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, Christians have better uses for language than that. Don’t talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn’t fit our style.
Be imitators of God
Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Ephesians 5:1 (MSG)You can only imitate what you’re seeing or hearing. Therefore
Get an honest Job
Did you used to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can’t work Ephesians 4:28 (MSG). Stealing isn’t
Speak the Truth
Therefore, rejecting all falsity and being done now with it, let everyone express the truth with his neighbor, for we are all parts of one body and members one of
Put on the new self
22You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23to be made new in
Spiritual Maturity
13till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of
The purpose of Spiritual gifts
And He Himself gave some [to be] apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the
A call to unity
Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope
A life worthy of the calling
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one