Yourselves

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,

You yourselves know, brothers, that our visit to you was not in vain.

After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,

You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

…have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.

Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,

Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.

Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.

Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.

But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

…keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.