Ano Novo
13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money."
14 You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
15 Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live—and do this or that."
16 But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
17 Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin.
10 For a short time they disciplined us as they thought best, but he does it for our good, so that we may share in his holiness.
11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, for those who have been trained by it, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.
14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which ties everything together in unity.
15 Let the peace of Christ also rule in your hearts, to which you were called in one body, and be thankful.
12 It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by Christ Jesus.
13 Brothers, I do not consider myself to have embraced it. But this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
14 I keep pursuing the goal to win the prize of God's heavenly call in Christ Jesus.
15 Therefore, those of us who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will show you how to think.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and—look!—all things have become new!
13 Brothers, I do not consider myself to have embraced it. But this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
14 I keep pursuing the goal to win the prize of God's heavenly call in Christ Jesus.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Because of his great mercy he has given us a new birth to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead