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Ask a QuestionThere is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;
After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church -
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,
All this is evidence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.
What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.
He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.
Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest.
But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.
See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.
As you come to him, the living Stone - rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him -
As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.
If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
And, "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"
To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ's sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: