Verse 8
As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as `are' grave, as many as `are' righteous, as many as `are' pure, as many as `are' lovely, as many as `are' of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;
Referenced Verses
- Jas 3:17 : 17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --
- Titus 2:7 : 7 concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,
- Rom 12:9-9 : 9 The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; 10 in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another; 11 in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving; 12 in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering; 13 to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing. 14 Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not; 15 to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping, 16 of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit; 17 giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. 18 If possible -- so far as in you -- with all men being in peace; 19 not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance `is' Mine, 20 I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head; 21 Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.
- 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;
- 2 Pet 1:3-7 : 3 As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness, 4 through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires. 5 And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, 6 and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety, 7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;
- Gal 5:22 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
- Titus 1:8 : 8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,
- 2 Cor 8:21 : 21 providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;
- 1 Thess 5:21-22 : 21 all things prove; that which is good hold fast; 22 from all appearance of evil abstain ye;
- Heb 13:18 : 18 Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to behave well,
- 1 Pet 2:12 : 12 having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.
- 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
- 1 John 3:3 : 3 and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.
- Eph 5:9 : 9 for the fruit of the Spirit `is' in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,
- Rom 13:13 : 13 as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;
- Prov 20:7 : 7 The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!
- Isa 26:7 : 7 The path for the righteous `is' uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.
- Jas 1:27 : 27 religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.
- Titus 2:2 : 2 aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;
- 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.
- 2 Cor 13:7 : 7 and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;
- Col 4:5 : 5 in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;
- 1 Thess 4:12 : 12 that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.
- 1 Tim 3:7-8 : 7 and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil. 8 Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,
- Titus 2:14 : 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
- Titus 3:14 : 14 and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
- Matt 22:16 : 16 and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;
- 2 Sam 23:3 : 3 He said -- the God of Israel -- to me, He spake -- the Rock of Israel: He who is ruling over man `is' righteous, He is ruling in the fear of God.
- Rom 2:29 : 29 but a Jew `is' he who is `so' inwardly, and circumcision `is' of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.
- 1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
- 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
- Rom 13:3 : 3 For those ruling are not a terror to the good works, but to the evil; and dost thou wish not to be afraid of the authority? that which is good be doing, and thou shalt have praise from it,
- Acts 10:22 : 22 And they said, `Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.'
- Acts 22:12 : 12 and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling `there',
- 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.
- 1 Cor 13:1-9 : 1 If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; 2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing; 3 and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing. 4 The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, 6 rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; 7 all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth. 8 The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; 9 for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; 10 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which `is' in part shall become useless. 11 When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe; 12 for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known; 13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love.
- 2 Cor 6:8 : 8 through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true;
- 2 Cor 8:18 : 18 and we sent with him the brother, whose praise in the good news `is' through all the assemblies,
- Eph 6:14 : 14 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,
- Phil 3:1 : 1 As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you `is' sure;
- 1 Tim 5:10 : 10 in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;
- 1 Tim 2:2 : 2 for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,
- 1 Tim 3:4 : 4 his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,