Ano Novo
13 Go to now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we shall journey to such a city and spend a year there, and trade and make money,"
14 when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing.
15 You ought instead to say, "If the Lord wills it, we shall live and do this or that."
16 But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.
17 So to him who knows how to do right and does not do it, to him it is sin.
10 For they only disciplined us for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, that we may share his holiness.
11 Now no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness to those who have been trained under it.
14 Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.
15 Let the peace of Christ, to which also you were called in one body, rule in your hearts, and show yourselves thankful.
12 I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.
13 Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead,
14 I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of Gods heavenward call in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals;
17 So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.
13 Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead,
14 I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of Gods heavenward call in Christ Jesus.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;