12 My dear people, you have always obeyed me. God has saved you from wrong ways. Now show this by the good things that you do. You must live that way, not only when I am with you, but much more now that I am not with you. Think of how wrong it will be if you do not. Try hard to work out how to do it.
13 For God is at work in you. He helps you want to do it. And he helps you do what he wants you to do.
14 Do everything without grumbling or making trouble.
15 In that way you will be completely good. No one will be able to say anything wrong about you. You will be Gods good children living amongst bad people. Among them you will shine like lights in the world.
16 You will have the message of life for them. I will be proud of you when Christ comes. My work and trouble will not be for nothing.
10 We must all stand before Christ to be judged. Then we will receive pay. If we have done well, our pay will be good. If we have not done well, our pay will not be good. must be feared, so we try to get people to believe. God knows what we are and what we do. And we hope that in your hearts you, too, know.
19 So go and make disciples in all countries. Baptise them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
16 Yet we know that God does not call a man good because he tries to obey the law of the Jews. But we know that God puts a man right because he believes in Jesus Christ. So we also believed in Jesus Christ. And we are put right with God because we believe in Christ and not because we obey the law. No person will ever be called good by God just because he tries to obey the law of the Jews.
11 Please try to live a quiet life. Mind your own business. Work with your hands as we told you to do.
12 Then people who do not belong to the church will respect you. And you will not need help from anyone. here is something I want you to know about those who have died. You should not cry for them like people cry who have no hope.
8 God is able to give you even more blessings than you need. In all things you will always have all you need for yourselves, and you will have enough to help all others.
22 But obey Gods word. Do not just listen to it. If you just listen to it, you fool yourselves.
23 Whatever your work is, do it gladly. Do it as you would do it unto the Lord and not for people.
24 You know you will get pay from the Lord, for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.
15 Try to show God that you are a good worker. Do nothing you would be ashamed of. Tell the true message in the right way.
16 The one who believes the good news and is baptised will be saved. But he who does not believe will be judged and punished.
10 God has made us. In Jesus Christ God made us so that we can do good things. He planned that we should live that way.
9 We work together for God. You are Gods farm. You are Gods house.