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Ask a QuestionLiving as becomes you] with complete lowliness of mind (humility) and meekness (unselfishness, gentleness, mildness), with patience, bearing with one another and making allowances because you love one another.
One God and Father of [us] all, Who is above all [Sovereign over all], pervading all and [living] in [us] all.
It is a fearful (formidable and terrible) thing to incur the divine penalties and be cast into the hands of the living God!
The prophets, who prophesied of the grace (divine blessing) which was intended for you, searched and inquired earnestly about this salvation.
Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto [completed] salvation,
Once you were not a people [at all], but now you are God's people; once you were unpitied, but now you are pitied and have received mercy.
And whenever the living creatures offer glory and honor and thanksgiving to Him Who sits on the throne, Who lives forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities),
And enter not into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no man living is [in himself] righteous or justified.
Thus says the Lord: Learn not the way of the [heathen] nations and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens, though they are dismayed at them,
But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish. Their instruction is given by idols who are but wood [it is a teaching of falsity, emptiness, futility]!
And in that vicinity there were shepherds living [out under the open sky] in the field, watching [in shifts] over their flock by night.
What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is [intrinsically changed by the fact and amounts to] anything or that an idol itself is a [living] thing?
Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life].
Let the thief steal no more, but rather let him be industrious, making an honest living with his own hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.
BUT [as for] you, teach what is fitting and becoming to sound (wholesome) doctrine [the character and right living that identify true Christians].
[Here] on earth you have abandoned yourselves to soft (prodigal) living and to [the pleasures of] self-indulgence and self-gratification. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
[Born anew] into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay [imperishable], unsullied and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
[You should] be exceedingly glad on this account, though now for a little while you may be distressed by trials and suffer temptations,
But as the One Who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all your conduct and manner of living.
So that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living by [his] human appetites and desires, but [he lives] for what God wills.