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to shew yourselves innocent and single-minded, God’s children, bringing no reproach on his name. You live in an age that is twisted out of its true pattern, and among such people you shine out, beacons to the world, (Philippians 2, 15)
which has reached you, which now bears fruit and thrives in you, as it does all the world over, since the day when you heard of God’s grace and recognized it for what it is. (Colossians 1, 6)
If, by dying with Christ, you have parted company with worldly principles, why do you live by these prescriptions, as if the world were still your element? (Colossians 2, 20)
Let it be a point of honour with you to keep calm and to go on looking after your affairs, working with your hands as we bade you; thus your life will win respect from the world around you, and you will not need to depend on others.✻ (1 Thessalonians 4, 11)
Make no mistake, brethren, about those who have gone to their rest; you are not to lament over them, as the rest of the world does, with no hope to live by. (1 Thessalonians 4, 12)
We must not sleep on, then, like the rest of the world, we must watch and keep sober; (1 Thessalonians 5, 6)
How true is that saying, and what a welcome it deserves, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I was the worst of all, (1 Timothy 1, 15)
He must bear a good character, too, in the world’s eyes; or he may fall into disrepute, and become a prey to the False Accuser.✻ (1 Timothy 3, 7)
No question of it, it is a great mystery we worship. Revelation made in human nature, justification won in the realm of the Spirit; a vision seen by angels, a mystery preached to the Gentiles; Christ in this world, accepted by faith, Christ, on high, taken up into glory.✻ (1 Timothy 3, 16)
Empty-handed we came into the world, and empty-handed, beyond question, we must leave it; (1 Timothy 6, 7)
The love of money is a root from which every kind of evil springs, and there are those who have wandered away from the faith by making it their ambition, involving themselves in a world of sorrows.✻ (1 Timothy 6, 10)
Warn those who are rich in this present world not to think highly of themselves, not to repose their hopes in the riches that may fail us, but in the living God, who bestows on us so richly all that we enjoy. (1 Timothy 6, 17)
