LET...’
Ephesians
...no one deceive you with empty words because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore do not be partners with them.
Philippians
...your gentleness be evident to all.
Colossians
...your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt
’LET US...’
2 Corinthians
...purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
Galatians
...keep in step with the Spirit.
...not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
...not become weary in doing good
...do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Philippians
...live up to what we have already attained
1 Thessalonians
...not be like others who are asleep, but...
...be alert and self-controlled
...be self-controlled since we belong to the day, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
’CONTINUE/KEEP ON...’
Philippians
...to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
Colossians
...to live in Christ, just as you received him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught and overflowing with thankfulness
’DO...’
2 Corinthians
...what is right even though we may seem to have failed.
Philippians
...everything without complaining or arguing
1 Thessalonians
...this more and more live in order to please God
...so more and more love all the brothers
’DO NOT...’
2 Corinthians
...be yoked together with unbelievers.
...do anything wrong
Galatians
...let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
...use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature...
...be deceived, God is not mocked; a man reaps what he sows
Ephesians
...be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
...sin, in your anger
...let the sun go down while you are still angry
...give the devil a foothold.
...let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth, but only what is helpful for the building up of others according to their needs
...grieve the Holy Spirit of God.
... be partners with them.
...be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
...get drunk on wine which leads to debauchery, but instead be filled with the Spirit.
Philippians
...be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition, present your requests to God
Colossians
...let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to religious festival
...let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize.
...submit to the rules of the basic principles of this world as though you belonged to it.
...lie to each other
...embitter your children, fathers, or they will become discouraged.
1 Thessalonians
...be ignorant about those who fall asleep, nor grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope
...put out the Spirit’s fire
...treat prophecies with contempt.
2 Thessalonians
...become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us saying that the day of the Lord has already come.
...let anyone deceive you in any way.
...associate with him [anyone not obeying our instruction in this letter]
...yet, regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
’BE...’
2 Corinthians
...reconciled to God.
Galatians
...of one mind
Ephesians
...completely humble and gentle;
...patient, bearing with one another in love.
...kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
...imitators of God, as dearly beloved children.
...sure No immoral, impure or greedy person --such a man is an idolater-- has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
...very careful how you live--not as unwise but as wise,
making the most out of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
...filled with the Spirit.
...strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
...alert...
Colossians
...wise in the way you act toward outsiders
1 Thessalonians
...joyful
...patient with everyone
’IF...’
Galatians
...you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
..you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
...we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
...if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently.
...anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
...we do not give up, we will reap a harvest.
...you have been stealing, you must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with your own hands.
Colossians
...you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel
2 Thessalonians
’...a man will not work, he shall not eat.’
...anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of him.
’LIVE...’
Ephesians
...a life worthy of the calling you have received.
...a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
...as children of light
’SHOULD...’
2 Corinthians
...give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluct -antly or under compulsion
Galatians
...test his own actions, then he can take pride in himself without comparing himself to somebody else
for each one...
...should carry his own load.
Ephesians
...not be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place
...be thanksgiving
Philippians
-Your attitude ... be that of Christ Jesus
...be glad and rejoice with me.
-All of us who are mature ... take such a view of things consider whatever to my profit a loss for the sake of Christ; consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things; I consider them rubbish that I may gain Christ and be found in him not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ; I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so somehow to attain to the rez. from the dead; I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me; Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead; I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
...stand firm in the Lord
1 Thessalonians
...avoid sexual immorality
...learn to control his own body in a way that is honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen who do not know God
...not wrong his neighbor in this matter or take advantage of him
